How to use Crontab with PHP?

MtPHP2

How can I use Crontab with PHP?

0 * * * * /home/warrior/cron/cron1.phtml

doesn't work...?

mogster

I think you'll need to run php as cgi to execute php-scripts as a command.
Check out at php.net, and be sure your php-version is up to date, as a new exploit is dicovered in the cgi-version 😉

http://www.php.net/release_4_3_1.php

knutm

-Juztin-

instead of "/home/etc....", try explicitly telling to use php to execute your phtml file, ie... "/usr/bin/php /home/path/to/myfile.phtml"...

The /usr/bin/php is the full path to where your php binary is located, if you are unsure just run a "find . -name php" from /, the second is to tell php what to parse, ie the phtml file you want. I'm not sure if that may work at all, but hey it's worth a shot 😉.

You may be able to use just "php /home/path/to/myfile.phtml" instead if the php binary is residing in one of your directories specified in your path environmental variable...

Sxooter

How to run php scripts in cron in x easy steps

1: find you php executable. If you don't have one, get one. Getting one is outside the scope of this guide
2: edit the script you'd like to cron and add a header to tell the shell where that executable is. If your executable were in /usr/local/bin/ and called php like on my box, then you would add this to the top of you script:

#!/usr/local/bin/php -q
<?php
script goes here...

3: chmod 775 (or whatever perms you like) the file.

4: Put it into a your crontab file.

stolzyboy

or if you have php installed as a module, you can have the lynx browser on the server and have the cron job call lynx to run the php page, simple, search yahoo for "cron job with php page" there are numerous tuts out there