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Posted by Rory Browne on 07/30/05 21:36
If your script needs to be run by the webserver - if for some reason
cli won´t work for you, then you could always automate a call to the
webserver using wget.
You can get wget for win32 as well as Unix/Linux, so you shouldn´t
have any problems here.
On 7/30/05, André Medeiros <andre.caum@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
> >
> >
> > > 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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