PHP file

Mr_ss · 09-17-2001, 10:31 AM

hi,
there is a file on our web server . it is a linux server and the file is PHP file. we need that file run/execut every day on a given time.
please let me know any solution any solution?
thanks in advance

trickykid · 09-17-2001, 12:55 PM

cron jobs can most likely do that for you....

Mr_ss · 09-18-2001, 01:21 AM

please tell me more about cron jobs. where i can get help about that..
thaks for your cooperation

jharris · 09-18-2001, 02:56 AM

You may want to look at http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...&threadid=6364 and http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...&threadid=2516

cheers

Jamie...

Mr_ss · 09-18-2001, 05:03 AM

Thanks jharris..there is enough material

Citizen Bleys · 09-18-2001, 12:41 PM

Hmm...Although I learned PHP from scratch just like I did with C++, I never thought of using PHP for non-web development-related projects.

How would I run a PHP script that's not in /var/www/html? /usr/bin/php /home/bleys/myscript.php?

jharris · 09-18-2001, 12:54 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Citizen Bleys
How would I run a PHP script that's not in /var/www/html? /us/bin/php /home/bleys/myscript.php?

AFAIK you would installed PHP so that it runs like you average CGI script would (effectively running the same way Perl does [assuming you are not using mod_perl!]), using a command line interpreter sorta setup. So yeah, you would call your script as you suggested, or with #!/usr/bin/php as the first line of your .php file, then chmod the file to atleast 700... Although I've never seen it actually done.

cheers

Jamie...