Trigger php code on scheduling time

vasu

i want to execute my php code for every occurence of particular time in a day in the server. Is that possible to schedule the code to a time and trigger the execution of code.
iam using mysql as backend.
for ex: i want to send a good day mess. on every occurence of 00:00 to the database

matto

on unix/linux systems, you can use a cronjob for that. search for it in google (etc) or ask a unix admin.

cyberplasma

I have read the answer to such question several times, but how does one do this if you only have access to the 'htdocs'-directory? You could ask the administrator, but my provider is lousy in communication (but excellent in price and uptime - that's why I stay with them)...

Are there any other possibilities to solve this?

Bjorn

David_Steckbeck

You could try to schedule a task on another machine (like your workstation) and just use lynx to access the page that needs t o run.

However if it has to be a stand alone solution, you're going to need more access on the system.

Alternatively, you could compile PHP as an executable file, then just run it from a cron task like any normal program:

php /path/to/my/script

Hope this helps.

superwormy

If you wanted to run it once a day, you could check the date of the file everytime someone requested the file... and run if the date was yesterday.

So create a file with teh current date. Everytime a user requests a page, check the file. If the current date is equal to the date in the file, do nothing.

Otherwise, run the job and then update the date in the file.