A cronjob is a script that will be executed by cron, a time-based job scheduler.
Using plugins in a cronjob
When developing a cronjob (a real one, not a pseudo-cronjob) it is often necessary to use functionality that is provided by plugins. In order to use this you have to include the plugins yourself. This can be achieved by adding theses lines to your code:
// include plugins & call hook after plugins are loaded
$cfg = cRegistry::getConfig();
require_once $backendPath . $cfg['path']['includes'] . 'functions.includePluginConf.php';
cApiCecHook::execute('Contenido.Frontend.AfterLoadPlugins');
Pseudo-cron
CONTENIDOs pseudo-cron is still to be documented.