Cron Jobs??

Anon

Id appreciate if someone could give me an example of how im suppose to get cron jobs to run php scripts? Im at a lose and dont know where to look. Does it matter what directory the jobs are placed? What should the command line look like?

"/etc/somejob.php"

Please give me a clue?

[deleted]

for help on the cron itself, type 'man cron' or 'man crontab'

to run PHP scripts from the cron you will need PHP as a CGI program, and tell the cron that you want to use PHP:
* /path/to/php -q /path/to/script.php

toma42

Personally, I like to create a dir, ~/.scripts/ and create shell scripts there that run my php. This makes it easy to test the scripts too (instead of croning a command and waiting for it to happen).

So my scripts are usually:
/usr/bin/php /project/cron/somescript.php

and my cron is
1 1 * ~/.scripts/rundaily

Anon

if you have access to lynx you can also run from cron this way:

0 5 * lynx -dump http://www.yourdomain.com/jobs/script.php >/dev/null

Anon

Or if you have curl installed...

0 /usr/local/bin/curl http://www.yourdomain.com/jobs/scripts/script.php > /dev/null

Anon

You can also use wget an run the script from a URL in your webspace.

[deleted]

True, but that does use extra resources.

thewitt

If PHP is only installed as an Apache module wget or a similar tool is your only option. It's nice to have them all on the table.

-t

[deleted]

Very true, I was just clarifying :-)