[RESOLVED] running a program every 24 hours?

[funnylookin]

i want to run a screen scraping program once every twenty-four hours. any function suggestions?

[duckduckgoose]

if you're on a unix box, i'd look into crontab

[funnylookin]

thanks for the suggestion.

i tried using a crontab script, but it didn't seem to execute. what i discovered is the program i wrote, which is a .php, won't run on my shell -- i'd been testing in using a link from my main website. i put in a lot of print statements to see where i'm running in to errors. it turns out almost immediately.

my code starts off

!/usr/bin/php
<?php
    echo "starting";
    //require common code (this connects me to database)
    require_once("inc/common.inc");

echo "required";

"starting" is the only thing that will print. any ideas why it stops when i try to require common.inc? common.inc contains constants, the connection to the sql database, and a few other functions.

[funnylookin]

ok so i realized that that was a relative path

so its now

#!/usr/bin/php
<?php

echo "starting";

//require common code
require_once("/home/user/web/inc/common.inc");
echo "required";

but i'm still not getting past require_once. "required" is never echoed

[funnylookin]

never mind, i figured it out, there was another relative path