> Dear all > I just wonder did anyone know if php can act as a scheduler rather than > execute script manually? > i want to set a schedule for php to run certain script at specify time, to > what i understood in php is : the script can only be process when a > homepage > had been execute. but i want the script to be excute even no one open a > homepage contain php script in it!
Sure. Write the PHP script you want to use. There shouldn't be any output from the script or it should all go to a database or file, since no one will be executing it to see it. Use "cron" on a *nix server to schedule when you want it to run. You should have a standalone version of PHP installed somewhere and you can just do php -q filename.php as what you want to run. You can also run it through lynx or wget if you don't have a standalone version of PHP available. Lynx --dump http://yourdomain/file.php. If you're on Windows, you can use task scheduler to run the program through php.exe like php.exe -q c:\path\to\file.php. Or you can load it up through Internet Explorer, iexplore.exe http://youdomain/file.php. If you use IE, there is a checkbox in the Task Scheduler program that will end the program after X minutes. Check that to have it shut down IE after a couple minutes, you PHP script should be done executing by then. Hope that helps. ---John W. Holmes... PHP Architect - A monthly magazine for PHP Professionals. Get your copy today. http://www.phparch.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
