Automatic PHP execution.

Anon

Hello,

Is there a way to have a PHP script automatically executed on a linux machine? (ie, setup a cron job to execute a PHP script?) Thanks.

Anon

Compile PHP into a binary and setup cron like so

/path/to/php/binary /path/to/php/script

Anon

I did compile PHP into a CGI executable, and tried to do what you specified above. All that did was generate HTML output of my code. So, how do I compile it for the purpose that we are discussing?

Anon

You never really specified a purpose. You merely asked how to automatically execute a php script on a linux machine. What exactly are you trying to accomplish?

Anon

I'm trying to determine who needs an e-mail reminder, and then e-mail them. This would be done in the early morning hours when the system is not busy.

Your earlier message made me rethink what was happening. So I started to actually "do" something (rather than just echo statements) and using the -q option when executing php. It is actually "doing" the work. Without the -q option I was simply getting the script back as HTML output, so I could verify the script was "running."

Thanks for your help!