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@xxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxx <sub@xxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2005 10:07 AM
Subject: Re: Running a PHP script everyday
On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 09:17:20AM -0700, sub@xxxxxxxxx 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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Jim Kaufman
Linux Evangelist
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CCNA, CISSP# 65668
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