Magento Log & Cache Maintenance Script

Magento Log & Cache Maintenance Script
Magento

Create a file called cleaner.php and add the following code to it:

<?php 

switch($_GET['clean']) {

case 'log':
 clean_log_tables();
 break;
 case 'var':
 clean_var_directory();
 break;
 }

function clean_log_tables() {
 $xml = simplexml_load_file('./app/etc/local.xml', NULL, LIBXML_NOCDATA);

if(is_object($xml)) {
 $db['host'] = $xml->global->resources->default_setup->connection->host;
 $db['name'] = $xml->global->resources->default_setup->connection->dbname;
 $db['user'] = $xml->global->resources->default_setup->connection->username;
 $db['pass'] = $xml->global->resources->default_setup->connection->password;
 $db['pref'] = $xml->global->resources->db->table_prefix;

$tables = array(
 'aw_core_logger',
 'dataflow_batch_export',
 'dataflow_batch_import',
 'log_customer',
 'log_quote',
 'log_summary',
 'log_summary_type',
 'log_url',
 'log_url_info',
 'log_visitor',
 'log_visitor_info',
 'log_visitor_online',
 'index_event',
 'report_event',
 'report_viewed_product_index',
 'report_compared_product_index',
 'catalog_compare_item',
 'catalogindex_aggregation',
 'catalogindex_aggregation_tag',
 'catalogindex_aggregation_to_tag'
 );

mysql_connect($db['host'], $db['user'], $db['pass']) or die(mysql_error());
 mysql_select_db($db['name']) or die(mysql_error());

foreach($tables as $table) {
 @mysql_query('TRUNCATE `'.$db['pref'].$table.'`');
 }
 echo "All log files have been cleaned.";
 } else {
 exit('Unable to load local.xml file');
 }
 }

function clean_var_directory() {
 $dirs = array(
 'downloader/.cache/',
 'downloader/pearlib/cache/*',
 'downloader/pearlib/download/*',
 'media/css/',
 'media/css_secure/',
 'media/import/',
 'media/js/',
 'var/cache/',
 'var/locks/',
 'var/log/',
 'var/report/',
 'var/session/',
 'var/tmp/'
 );

foreach($dirs as $dir) {
 exec('rm -rf '.$dir);
 }
 echo "All var files have been cleaned.";
 }

?>

Save this file to the root of your Magento directory.

 

You can run this file either by hitting the URL directly through your web browser,like:

http://yourdomain.com/cleaner.php?clean=log

http://yourdomain.com/cleaner.php?clean=var

 

OR, you can set a cron job for this. Open cPanel, go to Cron Jobs->Add New Cron Job. Set the cron job to run once a day and add following command:

php -f /home/<yourhostname>/cleaner.php?clean=log

Repeat the same steps, but change the Common Settings dropdown selection to 1st and 15th (0 0 1,15 * *),and add the following command:

php -f /home/<yourhostname>/cleaner.php?clean=var