PHP script: Cron Jobs control (is it possible?)

[notset]

Hello,

how i could control (add, check and etc.) cron jobs using PHP? Is it possible? If yes, does it require any additional PHP modules?

Thank's

[MarkR]

You could, by modifying the crontab file and supplying it to the "crontab" program.

However, this is probably a bad idea:

1. What user are your cron jobs running as? If it's different from the web server, then you won't be able to do it.
2. Why not run a cron job that runs fairly regularly and checks what it has to do using a database / files as necessary?
3. How do you hope to get it right? Testing such a setup sounds iffy at best.

Mark