Thanks everybody, looks like I was going down a blind alley, we can just run stuff from cron. Ben On 6 November 2012 17:50, Jim Lucas <lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 11/06/2012 05:03 AM, Ben Edwards wrote: > >> Not sure if this was some type of joke but came across it a while ago. We >> have some PHP we want to move from a site to a cron. Is this the answer >> or >> is there a better way (that does not involve re-writing code in another >> language). >> >> Cant find a home page for the project, maybe it is defunct. >> >> Ben >> > > I have scripts that get ran via crond and others that run 24/7 as daemons. > I have no issues using PHP via the cli. Like Bastien said, you will want > to setup better logging and maybe summary emails from cron would be useful > too. > > -- > Jim Lucas > > http://www.cmsws.com/ > http://www.cmsws.com/examples/ > -- *Ben Edwards - Freelance Filmmaker, Bristol, UK *http://www.funkytwig.com - View my show-reel and production services http://www.icontactvideo.org - iContact Video Network - Community Video Group http://bristol.mirocommunity.org/ - Bristol Community Channel http://bristol.mirocommunity.org/submit_video/ - Submit films to the above (takes < 10 seconds) http://www.icontactvideo.org/news-blog - What it says on the tin @funkytwig <http://twitter.com/funkytwig> - Occasional Twitter postings about community video and the multiverse