PHP & Cron

[Anon]

I'm making a website, but I need to have cron run a PHP script. I cannot do this, because PHP is not installed as a CGI module. My friend said try to use Perl to execute the PHP script, but I don't know any perl.

Can anyone help me? I'm not asking about perl, I'm asking if there is a way to do this (possibly without using Perl, but I can use it if it is necessary).

[Anon]

Look at wget, then put something like:

wget http://host/page.php 2>/dev/null

in a file and schedule that file. Don't forget to set the file to be executable.

This will run the script but not save any returned results from the "browser" output. Remove the 2>/dev/null and it'll save the file in the cron dir each time which is not probably what you want.

Wget has many very useful functions so make sure to check the man page.

[nashirak]

same could be done with lynx

lynx http://yourpage.php > /dev/null