Register php.ini

[Anon]

Has anyone ever used php.exe without a browser? E.g. to run some script without wanting to output HTML.

I want to do this using Windows scheduler ideally.

Maybe this is something to do with registering php.exe to recognise .php files outside of the Apache context but I'm not sure how to make this happen. My php installation is on NT4 Server BTW.

Can anyone please help?

Thanks in advance

Chris

[Anon]

It's simple. You just write your php program and save it as any kind of extension. Example:

date.php
<?php

// Print out today date
echo date('Y-m-d');

?>

Go to Dos Prompt run the following command:

c:\php\php.exe c:\php\date.php

or you can cd in php directory and run
php.exe date.php

Enter the same command as you want to run in the Window Scheduler.

That's all!!!

[Anon]

Thanks Bao - that works great.

[mikeq]

Hi,

You can also associate .php with php.exe

from the command line type:

ftype PHPScript=c:\php\php.exe %1 %*

then

assoc .php=PHPScript

after that is done all you need to do is schedule your file.php to open and windows knows to run it with php.

Mike