Re: crontab support for PHP

UNSUBSCRIBE ME PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Max Landborn schrieb: > > 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 > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-dev-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net