script execution.

[Anon]

Is there any way to code something into a php page so that as the page is running,
it can determine whether apache is executing it (its being viewed as a webpage) or I am executing it (more than likely as a cron job)

and do appropriate actions based on its determination?

Thanks,
-Joel

[Anon]

why not try phpinfo(); as the only line in the file?

[Anon]

If you are executing it from the command line, and perhaps passing parameters to the script, you should check if $argv contains something (that is the array containing the command line parameters).

Also, you could check for environment variables, and see one of the several associated w/ the server is set.

HTH