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

Really your only hope is to get a web browser session. On windows you could try "Get Right" or one of those other scheduled download managers. Then since your script probably outputs some nice success/faiure infor you now how a log ofthe last update. Funnily enough i'd use a Perl to hit the page and log the info then use Cron in un*x, AT in NT or the windows scheduler thingy in Win9x. Nice cross platform. If you want a sample of such a script give me yell, or look at libwww it has heap of examples on grabbing pages including secured sites. Also since you are on Win32 look at perl2exe (search the web im not sure where i got it) as it's compile your perl script into an executable. mn Mark Nold markn@alverstone.com.au Systems Consultant Change is inevitable, except from vending machines. On Saturday, 8 July 2000 12:42, Zack Beatty [SMTP:ZackB@mamamedia.com] wrote: > 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 > 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. > Thanks. > -zb >