Posted by Miles Thompson on 07/31/05 03:57

If you're on Windows, use Task Manager and have it start an instance of a
web browser, with your URL and script passed to it.
or
Cron job on server, if you have that level of access.

Miles


At 01:17 PM 7/30/2005, 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

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