Easy solution: Use wget. http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/
If you're not familiar with wget, you can Google or e-mail me. Basically, a command of: wget www.yahoo.com results in an HTTP request to Yahoo and you will find an index.html in the directory from which you ran the command. In your case, you don't care about the resulting file. What you care about is that your page can be requested, causing your PHP to run. ;o) Alternately, you can do something horribly clumsy, like having merak call "iexplore.exe http://localhost/myPage.php";, but that's ugly, and you don't want dozens of browser windows to build up on your webserver. I'm assuming that you're using a Windows server due to your reference to "exe" files. If I got that wrong, wget is still your answer -- it's an old Unix command, available also on Linux, FreeBSD, and, I imagine, Mac, since it's now a BSD. Please post your results to the group, in case they might me useful to someone. Note: You can just drop the .exe files from that unxutils .zip file into your windows\system32 directory. Shawn [EMAIL PROTECTED] et To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: 01/12/2004 01:56 Subject: [PHP] compile php PM i have a script that checks an email account and records information into a database and want to call it when ever an email hits that account. My ISP uses merak mail server and i see it has an excutables section, so i was hoping to fire my php page whenever an email goes to the account. the problem is that it can only execute .exe or .dll files and i don't know if a php file can be compiled. Thanks in advance, ~Logan -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php ********************************************************************** This e-mail and any files transmitted with it may contain confidential information and is intended solely for use by the individual to whom it is addressed. If you received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender, do not disclose its contents to others and delete it from your system. ********************************************************************** -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
