Re: Newbie:Backend scripts

Hello Beau Lebens, Thank you very much for the advice. I am using windows 2000/NT.So do you happen to know how to handle it in windows? Sagil. "Beau Lebens" <B.Lebens@curtin.edu.au> wrote in message news:A2B098B4E624D511BED900508BB92A57A2CFD3@exmsb02.curtin.edu.au... > Sagil, > the way I do something like this is write a script using PHP that does > exactly what you want, without any input or anything like that, then just > set up cron to run that script every 2 hours. you can use either lynx to hit > it as a webpage, or it's an admin script or something that you don't want > other people to be able to hit (because it'd be in the web-root) then you > can put it outside the documentroot and use the php cgi to run it. > > if you use lynx, do something like this in your crontab entry (the 'timing' > might be wrong) > > * 2,4,6,8,10,12 * * * lynx -source > http://yourscript > /dev/null > > that will just get the source of the page, then pipe it to the 'bin' so to > speak, but in doing this, it will perform whatever operations you have told > it to in the script > > HTH > > Beau > > // -----Original Message----- > // From: PHPFAN [mailto:perldbi@usa.net] > // Sent: Friday, 6 July 2001 9:43 AM > // To: php-db@lists.php.net > // Subject: [PHP-DB] Newbie:Backend scripts > // > // > // Hi, > // > // I am using php4 with mssql backend loaded on windows 2000. > // > // Here is my problem: > // > // I want to update my database contents every 2 hours with some sql > // statements. > // Is there anyway I can write scripts in php and run them > // every 2 hours? > // Anyother solutions are most welcome. > // > // Thank You, > // Sagil. > // > // > // > // -- > // PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > // To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-db-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > // For additional commands, e-mail: php-db-help@lists.php.net > // To contact the list administrators, e-mail: > // php-list-admin@lists.php.net > //