[RESOLVED] Command line php

[aaron_karp]

I've got a script that's accessible on the web that draws a bunch of info from a database and spits it out in pretty tables.

I also have a function that sends emails to myself if the data in the table meets certain criteria.

However, I don't want the email to be sent any time someone visits the webpage. Instead, I intend to set up a Cron job that runs the script every few hours.

How can I tell my PHP script to differentiate between calls from a browser and calls from my cron job? Right now the script doesn't take any parameters via query string, if that helps.

Thanks!

-Aaron

[drew010]

i suppose what you could do when you call it from cron is to just pass along a junk parameter that will be ignored but then in your script you can do
if ($_SERVER['argc'] > 0) //email

another option is to check for some of the predefined vars that are set when a person visits through the browser, but not from the command line.

if ( !isset($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']) ) //email

[aaron_karp]

I went with if ( !isset($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']) ) //email and it works like a charm. Good thinking. Thanks.