PHP & Cron Jobs

[rtalipski]

Does anyone know how to run a php script with a cron job without configuring php to run as a cgi. Any help would be appreciated.

[Anon]

Yes, there is a way. Suppose the PHP program is located at:

http://localdomain/crontask.php

In your Crontab, invoke this command:

(if you have wget)
wget -Q http://localdomain/crontask.php
NOTE: I don't know what the flag for "quiet mode" is. Do "man wget" to find out.

(if you have curl)
curl -q http://localdomain/crontask.php
NOTE: once again, I don't know what flag is for "quiet mode". Use man to find out.

(if you have lynx)
lynx --quiet http://localdomain/crontask.php
NOTE: lynx is different. There are a couple more flags you need to add so that lynx runs without generating output.

So basically the CRON will visit this PHP page on every time interval. As a result, the PHP program will do what its supposed to.

If you have trouble finding out the exact flags for wget, curl or lynx, post another message and I'll find out for you.

hope this helps!
-sridhar

[Anon]

how do u do that in windows with PHP , IIS and MYSQL??

[rtalipski]

I don't run a iis web server but I do know a little bit about nt/2000 and my guess would be that you want to put something in task scheduler. As far a php and mysql are concerned is they operate relatively the same as on a unix system as I use them with apache on my laptop. Hope it helps...