RE: [PHP-DB] Newbie:Backend scripts

Sagil, you can get a binary for lynx from the web (search for it, can't remember url off the top of my head :P), install that, then make a quick batch file such as; ----------------scheduled.bat--------------------- @echo off c: cd \lynx\ lynx -source %1 ----------------scheduled.bat--------------------- then, when you run this script, you can do something like scheduled http://yourscript and it will hit that page with lynx, and grab the source. now, using the windows scheduled service thing (My Computer | Control Panel | Scheduled Tasks ) you *should* be able to schedule this batch file to run whenever you want, with the parameter (webpage) you want it to hit. OK, i just checked and tested (jeez i'm a nice guy.. :P) and dodgy Windoze schedule doesn't allow you to do it by the hour, so if you want it every 2 hours, you'll have to set one, daily at 2am, one daily at 4am etc etc, all doing the same thing. in the Run: box, you can do something like this (my line exactly) C:\scheduled.bat http://www.dentedreality.com.au which will run the batch file, and hit that webpage. P.S. if you wanted to be really tricky, make the PHP script do some output *not* in html, so just something like ============================ Backup @ 2001-07-05 12:02:34 Operation Successful or whatever, then rather than lynx -source %1 in the batch file, do something like lynx -source %1 >> c:\backup_log.txt which would append the output of the php script continuously to the same file ENJOY! beau // -----Original Message----- // From: PHPFAN [mailto:perldbi@usa.net] // Sent: Friday, 6 July 2001 10:20 AM // To: php-db@lists.php.net // Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] 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 // > // // // // // -- // 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 //