Running a PHP Script on a Cron Job

[Anon]

Greetings,

I have been programming in PHP for quite some time now. I have just been learning what it takes to be a complete web server administrator, and I learned how to use cron jobs.

So far, this has helped me very much with automating various tasks on my server. However, all of these automations are written in perl.

I am wondering whether it is possible to run a php script from the command line, and thus in a cron job.

I am working on a weekly mailing list, and I don't want to have to try to remember to execute the script each week :-)

So far I have tried:

php newsletter.php3
php3 newsletter.php3

I don't know what else to try, any help would be appreciated!

[Anon]

You can compile php to be an apache module or an executable.
If you also compile the executable you can use it in the crontab.

Check out the manual.