title: How to directly RUN a function inside a controller class via cron?
body: <p>In magento i tried to setup cron as following.</p>
  
  <pre><code>   &lt;crontab&gt;    
              &lt;jobs&gt;
                  &lt;inchoo_birthday_send&gt;
                      &lt;schedule&gt;&lt;cron_expr&gt;0 1 * * *&lt;/cron_expr&gt;&lt;/schedule&gt;
                  &lt;/inchoo_birthday_send&gt;
              &lt;/jobs&gt;
      &lt;/crontab&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Here it calls model but how can i directly call a function inside the controller. For example</p>
  
  <pre><code>class Mage_Adminhtml_Inchoo_BirthdayController extends Mage_Adminhtml_Controller_Action
  {
  
  
      public function sendAction($strFname)
      {
          // this has to be called from cron in magento.
      }
  
  
  } 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How i can directly call the <strong>sendAction</strong> action function inside the above controller from cron. In other words how this sendAction initiated from cron directly. I have to run the conroller function directly instead of model. </p>
  
  <p>Please help me</p>