script that executes a script and kills itself

[uuzuka]

Hi,

i am a bloody php-newbie, who just is able to adjust php scripts...but who is overexerted with creating new ones.

Now i have got a task to create a php-script that just executes another script ("g.php") in the same directory like the php-script is in ("/g").
The purpose for this is that i only get a chron-job for starting the "g.php" every day if i can ensure that the script exits itself EVERY time after it is started by the chron job. So i have to create this small script that is started by the job, executes the g.php and ends itself immediately.

This is what i am thinking about:

<?php

$file_starting = @fopen ("g.php", "r");
exit ();

?>

Do you think thats enough and will work?

Help is very appreciated.

uuzuka

[wizade]

maybe you would just want to use the system command like

system("php myscript")

[uuzuka]

What would be the disadvantage of using the fopen command?

Or better what would be the advantage of the system command?

[wizade]

fopen will not execute the script... it will open it for reading / writing

the system command or exec commands will actually execute programs

[uuzuka]

thanks a lot for your advice...