<p>I would think you would want to instead set up a controller action, as URLs route directly to them, rather than use the overhead of a page.</p>

<p>Your cron job could hit the corresponding Controller Action URL (i.e., <a href="http://mysite.com/actions/myplugin/entriescreated/weekly" rel="nofollow">http://mysite.com/actions/myplugin/entriescreated/weekly</a>), and run your job like that. Note, where you're accessing an action via cron you would have to set it to allow anonymous access to the action.</p>

<p><a href="http://buildwithcraft.com/docs/plugins/controllers" rel="nofollow">http://buildwithcraft.com/docs/plugins/controllers</a></p>

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2015-07-31T16:09:18.557Z
Took me a minute to wade through that, but I got it. All working!!! Thanks!
Herb Himes
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2015-07-31T16:13:47.567Z
Question. I tested by just physically going to the action url. It returned a 404 page on the site. Is there a way to precent action urls from doing this?
Herb Himes
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2015-07-31T17:41:07.653Z
You'll need to trigger some sort of response to keep it from doing this: http://craftcms.stackexchange.com/questions/5401/controller-action-works-but-still-gives-404
Patrick Harrington
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2015-07-31T15:28:48.057Z
2015-07-31T15:28:48.057Z
Patrick Harrington
<p>I'm very new to this so any guidance is greatly appreciated. I've written a couple of simple plugins that will send an email to admins on new user save and and on new entry creation. What I need to do now is to send a weekly email with all new entries created in the last 7 days to a particular user group. I figured it'd be pretty efficient to set up an online CRON job to hit a site url, and on load of that page, trigger my email plugin. However, I'm not sure how to trigger my plugin on page load. Any suggestions? </p>

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Is it possible to have Craft send an email on page load?
# Is it possible to have Craft send an email on page load?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2015-07-31)

I'm very new to this so any guidance is greatly appreciated. I've written a couple of simple plugins that will send an email to admins on new user save and and on new entry creation. What I need to do now is to send a weekly email with all new entries created in the last 7 days to a particular user group. I figured it'd be pretty efficient to set up an online CRON job to hit a site url, and on load of that page, trigger my email plugin. However, I'm not sure how to trigger my plugin on page load. Any suggestions?

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2015-07-31. Score: 4 | Accepted answer

I would think you would want to instead set up a controller action, as URLs route directly to them, rather than use the overhead of a page.

Your cron job could hit the corresponding Controller Action URL (i.e., <http://mysite.com/actions/myplugin/entriescreated/weekly>), and run your job like that. Note, where you're accessing an action via cron you would have to set it to allow anonymous access to the action.

<http://buildwithcraft.com/docs/plugins/controllers>

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: Took me a minute to wade through that, but I got it. All working!!! Thanks!  
> **username_0**: Question. I tested by just physically going to the action url. It returned a 404 page on the site. Is there a way to precent action urls from doing this?  
> **username_1**: You'll need to trigger some sort of response to keep it from doing this: http://craftcms.stackexchange.com/questions/5401/controller-action-works-but-still-gives-404  

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