Posted by Miles Thompson on 07/31/05 03:59

That's not lame, it's just Windows version of cron. You can also set it up
using "at" from the console, but it still shows up in Task Manager.
M.
At 04:03 PM 7/30/2005, 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?
> > > > >
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