Posted by Jochem Maas on 02/18/05 16:06

bob wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to schedule the running of some PHP scripts on my Win2K PC
> at home.
>
> On my live server I use Linux, so am fully familiar with Crontab. I am
> not that familiar with running scripts using the scheduler in Win2K though.
>
> So far what I have is:
>
> C:\php\php.exe -q c:\path\to\php\file.php

what happens if you quote everything?:

"C:\php\php.exe" "-q" "c:\path\to\php\file.php"

>
> But this doesn't seem to do anything..the task manager in the windows
> scheduler just keeps saying that the task has not been run.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Also, one thing I would like my script to do is to send out an email,
> but I don't have a mail server set up on my home PC..is there anyway to
> run a script from a server on a different machine, using Windows
> scheduler, and if so, what form would the 'path' to the file/server take?
>
> Many thanks
> Alexis
>

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