cron and php

juschillinnow

Can you create a cron job from php:

example:

I have users login to a admin (php interface) and the specify some kinda of function they want to perform. They submit the form and then I process the info and write it to a file that will be picked up as a cron job.

Can you do this?

If so, how.

Please explain or point to tutorial on creating cron jobs. I tried in the past, but had a hard time with successfully getting it to do anything.

juschillinnow

anyone? Weedpacket, you know this one?

greg252

I guess you have cron installed.
Why can't you create a file with php extension, append that file with fwrite() from your script and set the cron for that file?

batman

What is this exactly for? What are you wanting to use it for?

jacob_kochi

This code will create a cron job for executing "yourfile.php" frequently

First create a text file name "cronstat.txt" with following content

30 lynx -dump http://yoursite/yourfile.php

Now create another file named "cronstart.php" with following code

<?php

$a=system( 'crontab /fulldirectorypath/cronstat.txt',$errorvar);
echo "err=$errorvar";
echo "<BR>out=$a";

Finally run "cronstart.php