Re: crontab support for PHP

> Max Landborn wrote: > > > > Hello everyone! > > > > I'm new to this list, therefore I do not know if you have discussed this > > matter before. I'm interested in something like crontab for PHP. This should > > be plattform independent and easy to maintain. I have a few ideas of how to > > implement it even though I'm rather new to PHP. > > > > I'm do not have much experience of crontab but I have the need for something > > like it on Windows. Also, if you have PHP compiled as a module there is, in > > my opinion, no good way of schedule running of scripts. > > > > What are your thoughts on the matter? > > Uhm, why not simply run PHP scripts from cron? Or did you want > something inside a web server environment? > > - Stig > > -- I am beginning to think that this was not such a good idea that it seemed to me at first. :) Perhaps the subject line should have read "built-in cron in PHP". But if I have PHP compiled as an Apache module (as it is on most web hosting services), I have to set up the cron job to use something like lynx to load a PHP page. I don't think that is a good way of doing it. Also, it works only on Unix. To use the task scheduler on Windows I belive on has to have Administrator privileges and on many Unix hosts you are not allowed to set up your own cron jobs. But making a built-in cron is probably not the right solution. Switching to a better host is. /Max