Re: Automated Processes

Quoting Jamie Alessio who wrote on Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 10:09:16AM -0800: > > My question i guess is how to get the automated reminder process to happen. > > > Your best bet (if you're using *nix) is to set up a cron job that either runs a PHP or > Perl script at a specified time. If you want to use a PHP script then you'll have to > compile PHP as a CGI executable. Admittedly, I was a bit hesitant to do this for a while > because I thought it would be a headache but it turned out to be extremely simply and it's > great to be able to run PHP scripts from the command line and pipe data to it. The second > option is to use Perl which is most likely already installed on your system but you'll > probably have to install DBI to get it to talk to your database. The disadvantage to this > is that you have to develop some things in Perl and some in PHP so I'd recommend trying > out compiling PHP as a CGI executable. How about making a php script that does 'the thing' (checking, mailing) without generating output and then using the following: lynx http://yourserver/the/special/script.php From cron. Best of both worlds :) Koos -- Koos van den Hout, PGP keyid RSA/1024 0xCA845CB5 via keyservers koos@kzdoos.xs4all.nl or DSS/1024 0xF0D7C263 -?) Fax +31-30-2817051 Visit my site about books with reviews /\\ http://idefix.net/~koos/ http://www.virtualbookcase.com/ _\_V