Re: Running a PHP script everyday

That's not lame, it's just Windows version of cron. You can also set it up using "at" from the console, but it still shows up in Task Manager. M. At 04:03 PM 7/30/2005, M Saleh EG wrote:

If you're on windows desktop.... try this... it might sound a lil lame but it works. Schedule a task to open IE or FF and pass a url to the task . That's it. The task will execute that page in a given interval. On 7/30/05, Rory Browne <rory.browne@gmail.com> wrote: If your script needs to be run by the webserver - if for some reason cli won´t work for you, then you could always automate a call to the webserver using wget. You can get wget for win32 as well as Unix/Linux, so you shouldn´t have any problems here. On 7/30/05, André Medeiros <andre.caum@gmail.com> wrote:

You can "cron" the script to run. Do the following: 1) Add #!/usr/bin/php as the first line on your .php file. If /usr/bin/php isn't where your php binary lives, type "whereis php" to find out 2) Make sure you chmod +x your php script. 3) http://www.linuxforums.org/tutorials/1/tutorial-4017.html On 7/30/05, sub@pudlz.com <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 <http://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 <http://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?

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