title: 1and1 Cron not running the mysql query
body: <p>I am trying to set up a cron job with my 1and1 hosting. If i write a simple php code, cron runs normal. But when include the database connection and run the code, it does not run.</p>
  
  <p>The code is blow:</p>
  
  <pre><code>    &lt;?php mail('email@gmail.com','At4U test cron','testing cron'); ?&gt;
  
  &lt;?php
      define('__ROOT__', dirname(dirname(__FILE__)));
      require_once(__ROOT__.'/AT4U/extensions/phpmailer/class.phpmailer.php');
      include(__ROOT__.'/AT4U/core/functions/general.php');
      function db_connect() {
  
          $db_name    = '***************';
          $db_user    = '***************';
          $host       = '***************';
          $password   = '***************';
  
          // Define connection as a static variable, to avoid connecting more than once 
          static $connection;
  
          // Try and connect to the database, if a connection has not been established yet
          if(!isset($connection)) {
  
              $connection = mysqli_connect($host,$db_user,$password,$db_name);
          }
  
          // If connection was not successful, handle the error
          if($connection === false) {
              // Handle error - notify administrator, log to a file, show an error screen, etc.
              return mysqli_connect_error(); 
          }
          return $connection;
      }
  
      $con = db_connect();
  
      $sql = "SELECT * FROM blog WHERE active = 1 ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 1";
      $result = $con-&gt;query($sql);
  
      if ($result-&gt;num_rows &gt; 0) {
          while($row = $result-&gt;fetch_assoc()) {
              $latest_blog = $row['title'];
          }
      }
  
      email('email@gmail.com','Latest Blog',$latest_blog); 
  ?&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>As you can see, at the top of the page, i inserted a simple email function just to test if the cron works. I get the email every minute. But below this simple code, i wrote the database query and try sending email with the information from database, but it does not work. </p>
  
  <p>Does anyone have any idea why?</p>