Running Google App Engine as PHP Command Line?

I currently have a small Google App Engine project written in PHP. On a traditional web server, I would simply invoke this particular code via command line (e.g., php whatever.php). I'd like to set this up with cron.yaml to just run every hour or so without invoking a HTTP request if possible. How would you go about doing this?

Solution

You can do this by adding a handler url that points to your script as follows:

In your app.yaml it would look like this:

handlers:
- url: /mycron
  script: cron.php
  login: admin

The login parameter will only allow execution of the endpoint by Google system accounts or something like that so you enpoint won't be publicly accessible.