Re: Running a PHP script everyday

sub@pudlz.com wrote:

In my pevious hunt through cron I didn't even notice the PHP CLI. So I will be figuring that out today probably. My server runs on Linux. Not sure which distro though. I'll have to ask. My script will be getting e-mail addresses from my SQL db and sending them a pic of the day. I got the HTML MimeMail 2.5.1 to work perfectly, now I just need to figure out how to make it run without me doing anything. Thanks! Andrew Darrow Kronos1 Productions www.pudlz.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Kaufman" <jmk@kaufman.eden-prairie.mn.us> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2005 10:07 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] 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 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.9.7/60 - Release Date: 7/28/2005

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.2-Manual/custom-guide/cron-task.html Unless you have a shebang line ("#!/path/to/php/binary")at the top of your script, you will have to preface your script's path in your cron entry with the location of the PHP binary: 0 1 1,15 * * /path/to/php/binary /root/scripts/System_Dump.php Matt Darby