Re: PHP script: need a scheduled task!!!

"Zack Beatty" <ZackB@mamamedia.com> wrote in message news:E56C286B7760D31189A2009027B0FF7304BA5CD5@missmuffet.mamamedia.com... > Is there a way to schedule a php script to run at a certain time, such as > with the Windows Task Scheduler. I need to query a database once a day at > midnight. In Perl, I would simply use the Windows Task Scheduler to execute > the Perl script in the shell. However, with PHP, my script is web-based, > and can only be executed via a web-browser. A task CAN be scheduled to open First, this isn't necessarily true. You can run the CGI version of PHP from the commandline: php script.php > an Internet Explorer window at any given time. However, it CAN'T be > configured to go to a specific web page. Any suggestions? I've heard that > PHP can be compiled to run from the command prompt (which would > theoretically solve my problem), but I'm not ready to pursue that route. Use one of the programs like wget that can retrieve URLs: wget http://myserver/script.php?Mode=themode&parm2=anotherparm I've used this a couple times to script scheduled tasks; toss the entire thing in a batch file and schedule that to be run with the windows scheduler.