I used to have the same problem and solved it as follows: I wrote my php script and created my crontab runing the script with the lynx-browser. The output is sent to me via eMail in crontab e.g.: MAILTO:my@email.com 15 15 * * * lynx -dump http://www.myDomain.com/myScript.php That works fine ;-) [my English isn't fine - i know :-( ] Lars Jedinski > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Jonathan Villa [mailto:jvilla@isdesigndev.com] > Gesendet: Montag, 15. September 2003 21:41 > An: php-db@lists.php.net > Betreff: Need to Run a PHP script using CRON or ? > > > I have an application which creates temporary tables. My plan is to > remove them after a 24 hour period and only those which are have a > created time greater than 24 hours. That part I can do, my > question is > how will I be able to run this script which is a 2 part script. > > First thing I do is pull the names of the temporary tables which are > going to be deleted from another table. From this result > set, I need to > DROP tables as well as remove the reference to them from the first > table. > > I understand that I can run PHP from the command line but this would > require PHP to installed as a CGI which I prefer not to do. > > I was hoping I that I could use CRON to run this script once a day... > > Any ideas? > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php