scheduling using crontab

[thomasanup]

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could you please tell me how to schedule a php file using crontab .I created one file to automatically send mail at regular intervals.i checked the crontab status and is correct but i am not getting the email file executed.I am sure it is not the problem with php's mail function.I think the problem is with command line execution of php code.Do we need a command line execution for scheduling.If yes please tell me how to do so for a php file

[zhabala]

if you are on Linux, you can use crontab -e command to edit crontab file. "man crontab" should show you a manual for crontab. But you are not able to run *.php file from crontab I think. You have to perform an http request to your http server (Apache) to perform an php script.

I do it through perl script, which is doing the same thing as HTML browsers do. One parametr is a web page for example "http://www.myserver.cz/script.php and this script performs the request. The perl script is called from crontab.

Zdenek