Reusing my classes in standalone appl?

[Anon]

I have developed some PHP-classes for database access in my Apache/PHP/MySQL web project. Now I would like to create a standalone application that would run regurarly with cron. The application should send formatted e-mails with the data from the database.

Can I write the entire application with standalone PHP and reuse my database classes? Or should I stick to Perl or you name it? How do I use the standard I/O in PHP? Thanks.

[Anon]

Sounds like you are doing this on a *nix box, if so then you can just use Lynx and don't bother with standard I/O. If you can build a page you can call with a web browser that will do exactly what you want, build it and make your cron job call it with Lynx.