[PHP] process php script at regular intervals

2002-06-03 Thread daniel cozzolino
I want to have a php script processed on a daily (eg 9am) interval. is there some way to automate this from within the script or do i need to schedule this with an external app? has anyone had any experience with this previously? thanks Daniel -- PHP General Mailing List

Re: [PHP] process php script at regular intervals

2002-06-03 Thread Justin French
it needs to be scheduled. - on *nix, a cron job will do it - on mac, a program like iDo Script Scheduler (combined with a simple applwscript) will do it - on windows, i believe there are tools to do this, but not sure what they are alternatively, i set up a HTML page as my 'start' page on IE,

Re: [PHP] process php script at regular intervals

2002-06-03 Thread Michael Hall
One way of doing this is to set up a cronjob that has Lynx call the script. There is a flag that is usually added as well ... I'm not sure right now but it could be '-dump': lynx -dump http://your/script/url.php This has been covered a few times in the archive if you want to check the details