Re: Need to Run a PHP script using CRON or ?

From: "Jonathan Villa" <jvilla@isdesigndev.com> > I have an application which creates temporary tables. My plan is to > remove them after a 24 hour period and only those which are have a > created time greater than 24 hours. That part I can do, my question is > how will I be able to run this script which is a 2 part script. > > First thing I do is pull the names of the temporary tables which are > going to be deleted from another table. From this result set, I need to > DROP tables as well as remove the reference to them from the first > table. > > I understand that I can run PHP from the command line but this would > require PHP to installed as a CGI which I prefer not to do. > > I was hoping I that I could use CRON to run this script once a day... You can. Create a php script that does what you want. It should not create any output, either log status/error messages or send an email. If you save it as cron.php, you can use a command such as the following in your crontab: wget -q -O - www.domain.com/cron.php > /dev/null I'm assuming you know the specifics of cron or can google for it. :) ---John Holmes...