Re: schedule a task
| From: | Jack Dempsey | Date: | Mon, 19 Nov 2001 20:38:35 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: schedule a task | ||
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you need some way of automating the process, and without cron automatically
doing things for you, you're going to be pressed for a solution...i'm not
sure what you could do because you need something to do this
automatically...your host doesn't provide perl scripts to be cronned or
anything like that? if not, i'm not sure what to tell you...
jack
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gab" <a@aa.com>
To: <php-general@lists.php.net>
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 3:32 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP] schedule a task
> thanks for a quick response but I have a major problem with that:
> no shell access => can't use cron
>
> Any other idea?
> Gab
>
>
> "Jack Dempsey" <dempsejn@georgetown.edu> wrote in message
> news:005401c17137$b930af00$746ba18d@reiss.georgetown.edu...
> > cron either a php script itself [if you've got it installed as a cgi] or
a
> > lynx request of the page
> > check the archives as well [marc.theaimsgroup.com] because this comes up
> > every week or so
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Gab" <a@aa.com>
> > To: <php-general@lists.php.net>
> > Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 3:15 PM
> > Subject: [PHP] schedule a task
> >
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have a form (POST method), that creates a back-up of a MySQL
database
> as
> > > an SQL file when submited. I am looking for a way to automate this
task
> > (ie
> > > on a daily basis at midnight).
> > > Any idea on how to do it in PHP? (if it is possible)
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Gab
> > >
> > >
> > >
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