[thelist] php timer

[David A. Ulevitch]

<quote who="Charles Cattell">
> still kinda new at this and that just went way over my head .... lol

If you have a unix server you have shell access on then you most likely
have access to something called "cron." (don't worry about what it is)

You may or may not have a php binary on the server, it may only be a part
of the webserver.  You are however, likely to have lynx or wget, two
http-capable command line programs.

What you want to do is create a cronjob to just call something like "lynx
-dump http://www.mysite/admin/dbupdate.php" or whatever the file you wish
to run is.  If you don't know how to do this, you will likely have to talk
to your system administrator.

-davidu

>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Scott Harman" <scott at enteractiontv.com>
> To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
> Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2003 4:19 PM
> Subject: Re: [thelist] php timer
>
>
>> Personally - we just run it as a shell script, and generate an html
>> output
>> file everytime the script is successfully run!
>>
>> A php db import script runs every 15 minutes if it detects that a
>> checksum
>> file has been modified.
>>
>> Fundamentally - it's a shell script telling the php application to run a
> php
>> script in a particular location, on a particular file at a given time.
>>
>> hth...
>> Scotty
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Charles Cattell" <ccattell1 at hotmail.com>
>> To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
>> Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2003 10:04 PM
>> Subject: [thelist] php timer
>>
>>
>> > i need to know if there is a way to automatically trigger a php script
> at
>> a
>> > certain time everyday, regardless of site activity, ect. i was told by
>> a
>> > co-worker that this is impossible in php, but maybe possible in c, but
> we
>> > have no knowledge of c at all, or to set a command in the unix system
>> to
>> run
>> > the script... any suggestions would be helpful, but i would prefer the
> php
>> > way if it is possible
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