Help with my script...

[Beppe]

Hi all!

I want to build a script with PHP (of course 😃 ) that every 2nd day of every month does a particular thing; in this case I need it to update some records in a DB. I can easily make the last part, but the tricky one is the first...any ideas?

I really appreciate your help guys 😉

[Huuggee]

schedule a cron job on unix or a scheduled task on windows to run on the 2nd day of the month

[Beppe]

Well, but this means that it cannot be done automatically by the script? I can't use UNIX server because my hosting doesn't permit... 🙁

[Huuggee]

a script can only be run with some kind of interaction, otherwise it's just a flat file.
The interaction can either come from a user running a CLI or clicking on a web site, or from an automated cron/scheduled job.

as an alternative, you could make a page and if your machine is on 24/7 then set up the cron to trigger that page at the desired time

[Beppe]

Well, so I think it's better to make the script launched by me manually. Thanks anyway folks 😉