[PHP] automatic job execution

2002-07-25 Thread Paul O'Neil
I have a php script I would like run like a cron job every so many minutes. How is this done? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] automatic job execution

2002-07-25 Thread Scott
Depends on what system you are running, let us know and we can better answer the question. On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Paul O'Neil wrote: I have a php script I would like run like a cron job every so many minutes. How is this done? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To

Re: [PHP] automatic job execution

2002-07-25 Thread Scott
On second thought, do you just want the script to run and sleep or actually schedule it as a job? You could just use sleep(). set_time_out(0); while ($i = 0){ your code sleep(60); } We use this at my company for a file parsing program, it runs, sleeps 15 minutes and repeats.

RE: [PHP] automatic job execution

2002-07-25 Thread Paul O'Neil
PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] automatic job execution On second thought, do you just want the script to run and sleep or actually schedule it as a job? You could just use sleep(). set_time_out(0); while ($i = 0){ your code sleep(60); } We use this at my company for a file

RE: [PHP] automatic job execution

2002-07-25 Thread Paul O'Neil
awe shit, that did work. thanks! -Original Message- From: Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 6:25 AM To: Paul O'Neil Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] automatic job execution On second thought, do you just want the script to run and sleep or actually

Re: [PHP] automatic job execution

2002-07-25 Thread Scott
In order to run the script from the command line you need the cgi or executable version of PHP. You can have both on the machine, Apache uses mod_php and you use the cgi version for your scripts on the machine. On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Negrea Mihai wrote: and what happens if you restart

RE: [PHP] automatic job execution

2002-07-25 Thread Scott
] Subject: Re: [PHP] automatic job execution On second thought, do you just want the script to run and sleep or actually schedule it as a job? You could just use sleep(). set_time_out(0); while ($i = 0){ your code sleep(60); } We use this at my company for a file parsing