Re: Crontab for Windows

On W3K you could use this as the run line in Scheduled Tasks and probably the same in XP although I have not tested this. The same components exist in the W2K version although may be in different locations/names. Run: cmd /c "c:\php\php.exe -q c:\path\to\php\file.php" Start in: C:\path\to\php\file\ Run as: username/pass with security acess to both php.exe and the file.php YMMV pjn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jochem Maas" <jochem@iamjochem.com> To: <phpgen@antonakis.co.uk> Cc: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 10:06 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Crontab for Windows

bob wrote:

Hi, I am trying to schedule the running of some PHP scripts on my Win2K PC at home. On my live server I use Linux, so am fully familiar with Crontab. I am not that familiar with running scripts using the scheduler in Win2K though. So far what I have is: C:\php\php.exe -q c:\path\to\php\file.php

what happens if you quote everything?: "C:\php\php.exe" "-q" "c:\path\to\php\file.php"

But this doesn't seem to do anything..the task manager in the windows scheduler just keeps saying that the task has not been run. Any suggestions? Also, one thing I would like my script to do is to send out an email, but I don't have a mail server set up on my home PC..is there anyway to run a script from a server on a different machine, using Windows scheduler, and if so, what form would the 'path' to the file/server take? Many thanks Alexis

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