Posted by James Kaufman on 07/30/05 20:07

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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Jim Kaufman
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