Chron Job Help for Newbie

TomChurm

hi,

i've never created a chron job before, but now i need to make one on my company's intranet that runs a Php script every day at a certain time.

our intranet's running Apache with PHP4/MySQL/Perl on Windows 2000. is it possible to create Chron Jobs on Windoze, or is this just a Unix thing? or is there some kind of similar function i can use on a Windows platform???

anyone ever seen a Chron Job Tutorial somewhere online?

i need an introduction to this, as i've never created a chron job before. i assume these things are usually written in Perl, right?

thanks in advance for your help,

tom

hand

http://www.linux-tutorial.info/cgi-bin/display.pl?78&0&0&0&3

TomChurm

uhh...thanks for your post, but i'd explicity stated that i need a chron-like function for windows.

what i've discovered is that the easiest way to accomplish this is to use the Windows Scheduler.

the Scheduler is found in Start=>Programs=>Accessories=>Scheduler.

the details of the Scheduled Task look like this:

Run:
"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE" http://localhost/foldername/scriptname.php
(important! just one space between IEXPLORE.EXE" and the url for the script...the formatting looks different in this post)

Start in:
"C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop"

i tried it overnight for the first time, and the thing didn't run! but i think the reason why is that i had already had a browser window in MSIE open on the 'puter with the scheduled task.

(strange windows bug, if you ask me.)

but now i'm making sure that all browser windows are closed, and the 'fake chron job' seems to be working!

mstringham

Tom -

I am looking to run a php script with a scheduled task - much like what you've described with your original post.

My thought was to create a BAT file with the following code

// taken from your previous post //

C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE" http://localhost/foldername/scriptname.php

//END

I'm not sure if this would work

Have you been successful running the scheduler?

thanks
MS

ahundiak

I have not tried it myself under windows but you might try getting the wget utility from http://wget.sunsite.dk.

Then you can run wget whatever.php instead of iexplorer and maybe save yourself some trouble with having to close down explorer.

Weedpacket

Originally posted by TomChurm

anyone ever seen a Chron Job Tutorial somewhere online?

Your searching will be more successful if you spell it right 🙂: it's "cron" - short for "Command Run On...".

Weedpacket

Originally posted by mstringham

C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE" http://localhost/foldername/scriptname.php

You should be able to just pass the script directly to php.exe.