Re: Running a PHP script everyday

On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 09:17:20AM -0700, sub@pudlz.com wrote: > I have a PHP script that I need to run once a day. I have it currently > setup so that I just run it from my cell phone, but I would prefer something > automated. I'd looked into a cron job, but that just looks like it's for > doing linux command line stuff on my host. > > I also thought about writing a never ending while loop with an if statement > that checks to see if it's time to run the script, then when it is time, it > runs. Then checks to see if it's time again. > > But even assuming I could get it working, do I really want to have a PHP > script that runs all the time. This could be bad if it ate up all the CPU on > my server. I'm not even sure I have access rights to kill the process once I > start it. > > Any suggestions? > > Andrew Darrow > Kronos1 Productions > www.pudlz.com > You don't state what OS you are using, but you certainly can use cron under Linux to run a PHP script. What really matters is what does the PHP script do? For example, I have a PHP script that I run periodically that retrieves data from a database and updates a text file on the disk. What does your script do? -- Jim Kaufman Linux Evangelist public key 0x6D802619 CCNA, CISSP# 65668