How to Setup cron in Windows XP with CodeIgniter?

I am newbie. I have Windows XP and use the CodeIgniter framework. I wanted to know how 开发者_C百科to set up a cron job.

You can't really make a 'real' cronjob system with PHP since PHP is not a long running process, but you can make a PHP script that executes certain tasks if the script is visited.

I'm not sure if you can use this, but I think Windows itself has some sort of cronjob system (I'm a linux user). I found it at the Drupal website: http://drupal.org/node/31506

How is CodeIgniter tied to your cron job? Are you trying to setup cron jobs from a CodeIgniter application? Are your trying to run a cron job that does some sort of work for your CodeIgniter application? I'm confused as to exactly what you want.

One idea that you may look into is CygWin. It runs a bash shell under windows and it supports a full cron. http://www.cygwin.com/