automatic or manual?

[Anon]

Can I have a PHP script run itself. For example, if I wanted to clean out a text file every monday but wasn't going to be able to run the program to do it, how can I make it do that without me telling it to do that? Any help at all would be appriciated!

[Anon]

Using a unix crontab will solve the problem.

It s not really suited for php script but you can use it anyway: either by having php as an executable (so you can launch it as any other scripts) or by using wget to request the wanted page to be loaded by apache (in case your php is not an executable but an apache's module).

Among other source of information about crontables, here is one that looks nice:

http://kb.indiana.edu/data/afiz.html

[Anon]

when I try to do crontab -l from telnet, it says that I don't have access to do that. Any ideas?