RE: [PHP] Re: Running PHP as a cron job....

Someone yesterday also suggested putting them in a web-accessible location, but having lynx come by and run them. That seemed pretty cool => Good luck, Ben Quoting "Chadwick, Russell" <rchadwick@miva.com>: > > You can still run php... I put my cron scripts > in a directory on the web > server, just makes sure they are all safe to run > multiple times in case > someone finds it > > then make a script that for each entry in that > directory invokes the script. > mines in python so you just > import urllib > > and then for each file in the directory > urllib.urlopen ('<server > name>/cron/<whatever>.php') > > and make it run your python script nightly and > it will run any php script > you put in that directory. > > -----Original Message----- > From: James, Yz [mailto:liljim@btconnect.com] > Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 3:54 PM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] Re: Running PHP as a cron > job.... > > > Thanks for all of your help on this. My host > admin have informed me that > php is installed only for the web, and not as a > cgi, so that's what was > going wrong (it wasn't down to my own naievity > afterall.....) > > So, it's time to learn perl (or bash). > > Thanks again for all your comments and help. > > James. > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: > php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: > php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: > php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: > php-list-admin@lists.php.net > >