Scheduling the programs(Task scheduler)

Anon

Hi,
Is it possible to schedule php programs like
we do with windows scripting host ( Task scheduler )
Waiting for reply,
Raghu

Anon

If your php is compiled as CGI i think that you may schedule the script at cron tab... if no, you may code a simple perl script that request your php script via HTTP, so schedule the perl script on the cron tab (i make it and works :0))

Anon

good idea, but i never used perl before:
so, how does the perl-script looks like?

thanXalot
nocontrol

Anon

Some like:

#!/usr/bin/perl

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
&IOSocket;

sub IOSocket{
use IO::Socket;
$method = "GET";
my @f = split(/\//, $input);
$host = "123.456.789.12";
$path = "/page.php?querystring=value";
$socket = new IO::Socket::INET( PeerAddr => $host,
PeerPort => 80,
Proto => 'tcp',
Type => SOCK_STREAM, ) or die &show($start,$stop,$command,$input,"<p>Error: Unable to connect to server<p>",$special);
print $socket "$method $path HTTP/1.0\nReferer: $host\n";
print $socket "User-Agent: $ENV{'HTTP_USER_AGENT'}\n\n";
@ = <$socket>;
close ($socket);
}

Regards,

Fernando F. Torres
www.megavale.com.br

smarlowe

Just get wget to do it. It's available on most unixes (and is free and easy to compile).
Then lookup how to put entries into crontab and put a command in something like this:

wget http://myserver/myurl.php

And you're done.

smarlowe

but the best way is to compile PHP as a cgi program (i.e. no --with-apache or --with-apxs switches to ./configure) and put the php executable in /usr/local/bin, then you can make a php scriupt by making the first line of the script look like this:

#!/usr/local/bin/php -q
<?php
code goes here
?>

and then chmod the file to be executable (chmod 755 filename) and put it into /etc/cron.daily and it will execute every day.

borrmaskin

A bit of the subject but...

I had the same problem, db entries that should not be accessed after a certain date. I was trying to get into pearl and cron when i realised that i could just let the clients do the job. So on my first page a have a delete function. The still cant access the old entries. Even if the are not deleted on the exact rigth time...

Anon

If you're running php as a CGI, the easiest way is to find the location of your php binary and stick that at the top of your script.

#!/usr/bin/php -q
print "blah";

Then make that file executable 'chmod 774 script.php'.

After that you can run it the same way you would any other executable.