Re: Best way to start a CRON

On Thu, April 20, 2006 4:03 am, Barry wrote: > What would be the best way to start a PHP Script via CRONJOB? > Should i use the 'php' command or use curl or lynx or something to > open that URL? Ideally just use CLI PHP. Slightly sub-optimal is CGI PHP with -q argument. Also use FULL PATH to the php binary, and to your script, because the cronjob may not (or may) be using the same "home" directory as you are. With a full path, you can't go wrong. Using curl or lynx will just waste an HTTP connection for no real reason. If, however, you need to run a cronjob on machine A, but have no shell access on A, and have shell access on B... Running a cron job on B to lynx to a page on A is a solution... Not a pretty solution. Probably not the best solution. Maybe not even a GOOD solution. Just A solution. PS You can also use -d and -c and other fun arguments to the CLI/CGI php binary to provide a specialized php.ini file or some over-rides to php.ini parameters. Very handy. Again, use FULL PATH to be safe. > The Script does a MySQL query, collects data and sends it via E-Mail > every monday morning to the recipient. cron doesn't much care what your script does. :-) -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm