CRON http execution

[rhodesy]

Hi,

I have made a script the automates the logging in and alteration of settings for a website.

I would like to use CRON to execute this script every hour or so.

What I need is a method of executing the web page as if it were me typing it in the browser. Otherwise $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] and Request Vars dont work...

I hope someone can help 🙂
Thanks

[Drakla]

You can use $_GET variables in your cron, but you pass the variables in seperated by spaces, like this

php /home/mydomain/public_html/clear-dead-clicks.php remove=1 > /dev/null 2>&1

A good idea is to a complete dump of $SERVER, $REQUEST, get_defined_vars, and even phpinfo() and write it to a file or email it to yourself from the script, as then you can see exactly what's available to you.

Things like FILE can be used instead of $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']

[rhodesy]

Im not sure thats what I need.

Basically im using a PHP proxy script to open a webpage. The page is then logged into using javascript, (can javascript be execued in any way by server side?) and then javascript is used to automate some processes)