How to schedule script run

richie

I need to schedule a php script to be run daily at 12.30am.

What command can I place in my crontab to do this?

I'm confused because a web browser is required to run a typical php script.

I thought about lynx, but I'm not sure how to run it, and then exit after it runs.

Thanks

Richie.

jansky

in your crontab
run
lynx http://www.mydomain.com/yourscript.php

dalecosp

richie wrote:
I'm confused because a web browser is required to run a typical php script.

This is no longer true.

[539] Fri 12.Aug.2005 17:44:21
[kadmin@elisha][~/scripts]
echo '<?php  echo "hello world!"; ?>' > hw.php

[540] Fri 12.Aug.2005 17:44:37
[kadmin@elisha][~/scripts]
/usr/local/bin/php hw.php
hello world!

A fairly large number of my PHP scripts run in the shell these days.... 🙂

dalecosp

jansky wrote:
in your crontab
run
lynx http://www.mydomain.com/yourscript.php

lynx -dump is handy for such things, and possibly preferred, as lynx expects stdout to be a terminal, most likely... and this would solve the "exit" problem OP mentions....