RE: [PHP] Cron-Job for database updating (bemorph)

Just wondering... can you not just run the php binary and feed it the page you want it do process? The output will be dumped to stdout.. /usr/sbin/php < mypage.php3 > captureoutput.txt Would this not work? Cheers. Mark Wilkinson http://www.wiggis.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Martin A. Marques [mailto:martin@math.unl.edu.ar] > Sent: 25 August 2000 14:34 > To: Marko Vukovic' > Cc: info@bemorph.de; php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP] Cron-Job for database updating (bemorph) > > > On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Marko Vukovic' wrote: > > > bemorph wrote: > > > > > > how do i setup a cron job (php-script) which updates a database? > > > the script should run two times a day > > > > > > jochen kächelin > > > > > > > we were just discussing this yesterday - have a search in > the archive. > > > > a good suggestion was setting up the cron to run > /usr/local/bin/lynx -dump http://wherever/blah.php > >/dev/null > which will do the job just fine. > > I'm not sure how it would look like, but simply opening a conection to > the port 80 (or whatever port your web server is on), and ask > to get the > php page which has the script. If you want, you can send the output to > your mail acount. > > My 2 cents! > > > "And I'm happy, because you make me feel good, about me." - > Melvin Udall > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Martín Marqués email: martin@math.unl.edu.ar > Santa Fe - Argentina http://math.unl.edu.ar/~martin/ > Administrador de sistemas en math.unl.edu.ar > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: > php-list-admin@lists.php.net > >