At 06:41 AM 2/16/2002 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >"Is currently anyway of doing scheduled tasks with PHP (without using >crontab)? " >"What's wrong with using cron?" > >I'm building an OSS site where the PostgreSQL data base maintenance, >email sending, stats gathering, number crunching and graph plotting needs >to be automated. My target audience will need things as simple as >possible. I am under the impression that it would be a hassle and cost >more to get a web host to install a cron script for Postgres. (Or have php >as an executable binary instead of shared object.)
If the web host gives you access to a shell account then you could setup the script...you wouldn't need them to do it. You could build a copy of PHP as an executable in your home directory and run it from there, no need to get the host to do it. Or there are a few ways that you could schedule the task remotely...use a cron job from another server that either runs the PHP script locally, connecting to the SQL database remotely, or you can use a cron job and lynx to call a remote PHP page that will run your script. Of course, this requires your script to be in your web servers directory tree, but if security is a concern you could always setup a .htaccess file to challenge for credentials then use the "-auth" switch to lynx in your remote script. It's not the most secure thing in the world, but it's better than nothing... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
