RE: [PHP] automatic job execution

You can do that or just run the command: /usr/local/bin/php -q name_of_script.php If you want to call the script directly by name instead of calling php like that you will need to make to executable and add the # line at the top. On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Paul O'Neil wrote: > I looked at some old posts and I found #!/usr/local/bin/php -q should be > included at the top of the script but I don't think I have permission on the > system I'm on. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Scott [mailto:scott@scottah.com] > Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 6:25 AM > To: Paul O'Neil > Cc: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP] automatic job execution > > > On second thought, do you just want the script to run and sleep or > actually schedule it as a job? You could just use sleep(). > > set_time_out(0); > > while ($i = 0){ > your code > > sleep(60); > } > > We use this at my company for a file parsing program, it runs, sleeps 15 > minutes and repeats. > > -Scott > > > > On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Paul O'Neil wrote: > > > I have a php script I would like run like a cron job every so many > minutes. > > How is this done? > > > > > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >