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Posted by Andrι Medeiros on 07/30/05 20:35
You can "cron" the script to run.
Do the following:
1) Add #!/usr/bin/php as the first line on your .php file. If
/usr/bin/php isn't where your php binary lives, type "whereis php" to
find out
2) Make sure you chmod +x your php script.
3) http://www.linuxforums.org/tutorials/1/tutorial-4017.html
On 7/30/05, sub@pudlz.com <sub@pudlz.com> wrote:
> In my pevious hunt through cron I didn't even notice the PHP CLI. So I will be figuring that out today probably.
>
> My server runs on Linux. Not sure which distro though. I'll have to ask.
>
> My script will be getting e-mail addresses from my SQL db and sending them a pic of the day. I got the HTML MimeMail 2.5.1 to work perfectly, now I just need to figure out how to make it run without me doing anything.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Andrew Darrow
> Kronos1 Productions
> www.pudlz.com
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "James Kaufman" <jmk@kaufman.eden-prairie.mn.us>
> To: <php-general@lists.php.net>
> Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2005 10:07 AM
> Subject: Re: [PHP] Running a PHP script everyday
>
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> > On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 09:17:20AM -0700, sub@pudlz.com wrote:
> > > I have a PHP script that I need to run once a day. I have it currently
> > > setup so that I just run it from my cell phone, but I would prefer something
> > > automated. I'd looked into a cron job, but that just looks like it's for
> > > doing linux command line stuff on my host.
> > >
> > > I also thought about writing a never ending while loop with an if statement
> > > that checks to see if it's time to run the script, then when it is time, it
> > > runs. Then checks to see if it's time again.
> > >
> > > But even assuming I could get it working, do I really want to have a PHP
> > > script that runs all the time. This could be bad if it ate up all the CPU on
> > > my server. I'm not even sure I have access rights to kill the process once I
> > > start it.
> > >
> > > Any suggestions?
> > >
> > > Andrew Darrow
> > > Kronos1 Productions
> > > www.pudlz.com
> > >
> >
> > You don't state what OS you are using, but you certainly can use cron under
> > Linux to run a PHP script. What really matters is what does the PHP script do?
> > For example, I have a PHP script that I run periodically that retrieves data
> > from a database and updates a text file on the disk. What does your script do?
> >
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