Does PHP has any function or scheduling tools to do things like Coldfusion's Scheduled Tasks? Eg everynight at 0000hrs i need to query those auction item suppose to end, and the script is to end the item and sent emails out to whoever... and all this is run automatically without any user/administrator interference...
Scheduling tools ought to be supplied at the OS level. Under Unix, it's cron. Surely Win2K has some equivalent.
True. I read in one of these forums that you can either compile a cgi version of php so that you can do php scripts from the command line, or use lynx -dump <url> to force a remote script to run..
these commands both have to be put into cron..
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Win2K has the AT command which you can use to schedule jobs.
The BadBlue PHP server (for Win32 platforms) has a complete scheduling system built-in (see http://badblue.com/helpsch.htm for details) that is a little easier to use than cron.
See http://badblue.com/helpphps.htm for quick-start info on PHP.
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