Re: crontab support for PHP

Stig S. Bakken (Stig.Bakken@fast.no) wrote: > Uhm, why not simply run PHP scripts from cron? Or did you want > something inside a web server environment? I personally have been looking for something similar. AOLServer has this facility: http://www.aolserver.com/docs/tcldev/tapi-114.htm and believe me, it rocks. The problem it solves is this: in larger production environments, people have usually figured out how to use CVS to do revision control for what goes up on a web site. cron is one of those annoying things that has to live outside of CVS. In a team where there can be many people on the web server, people DO edit the cron tab, forget to save their changes, and people only discover the problem when something stops working. FWIW, I'm designing a few improvements to the Apache SAPI implementation that might make this improvement. I don't think it belongs in the language itself though. - Steve