if you've compiled php without apache support (separately from your normal
php with apache support) but with mySQL then you can write php scripts that
run from the command line. I usually keep a second php.ini for command line
scripts because they can run long. This all could be put in a CRON job.
'course you could do it in PERL as well.
Cal
http://www.calevans.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck Barnett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 12:22 PM
To: Steve Ruby
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: automation question: How do I copy the data from one table
to another table with a time stamp every night?
Thanks for replying.
I know the SQL commands, I want to know how to automate the whole sequence.
I've always written php pages that do the calls. I want to write a script
to do it on the server as a cron job or something.
thanks
Chuck
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Ruby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Chuck Barnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 12:34 PM
Subject: Re: automation question: How do I copy the data from one table to
another table with a time stamp every night?
> Chuck Barnett wrote:
> >
> > How do I copy the data from one table to another table with a time stamp
> > every night?
> >
> > example: table A contains x,y,z.
> >
> > at midnight, I want to copy table A's contents to table B (B has same
> > fields, just adds a date field) and reset x,y,z to zero.
> >
>
>
> what do you mean by "reset to zero" If you want to copy the files
> from A to B you can just do
>
> insert into B select x,y,z,now() from A;
> delete form a;
>
> if your date field in B is a TIMESTAMP type you can avoid the now()
> part and do
>
> inesrt into B (x,y,z) select x,y,z from A;
> delete from a;
>
> See the manual about the insert statement for more info.
>
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