[thelist] php timer

[Charles Cattell]

still kinda new at this and that just went way over my head .... lol


----- 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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