Posted by Ryan Grange on 07/31/05 00:20

And how do you automate closing the browser when it's job is done? I
believe the wget method mentioned earlier might be more appropriate.
Even Lynx for Windows set to dump output (rather than stay open for
browsing) would be better than leaving IE or FF open.

M Saleh EG wrote:

>If you're on windows desktop.... try this... it might sound a lil lame but
>it works.
>Schedule a task to open IE or FF and pass a url to the task . That's it. The
>task will execute that page in a given interval.
>
>On 7/30/05, Rory Browne <rory.browne@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>>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 <http://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 <http://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?
>>
>>
>>>>>--
>>>>>Jim Kaufman
>>>>>Linux Evangelist
>>>>>public key 0x6D802619
>>>>>CCNA, CISSP# 65668
>>>>>
>>>>>

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