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

Zack Beatty 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 At least in Windows 2000 Scheduled Tasks you CAN specify the URL for internet explorer (in the Advanced menu). Andrian