Re: running php script daily at fixed time

Try putting this in your crontab, to access the webserver in order to execute the script. lynx --dump http://www.yourserver.com/my_script.php --Joe farhat daud wrote: > i have prepared a php script which takes input from a database and sends it > to certain email addresses. > this script is working when i manually execute it. > i want to execute it daily at a fixed time ...so that the whole process is > automated. > i am running this on a red hat kinux server with apache running. > at present i have tried to run it thru shell script (editing crontab)but the > shell script does not recognise a php file. > what is the alternative? > any help would be greatly appreciated. > thanks > please reply to shabbardaud@hotmail.com > > shabbar > > -- > 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