can i do it using cron in cpanel

[sherryonline@gmail.com]

i have a page and i need that page to be called every day at 12:00
that page is going to connect to the database fetch some emails and
will start mailing them how i am goning to do this.

[Colin McKinnon]

Re: can i do it using cron in cpanel

sherryonline@gm ail.com wrote:
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> i have a page and i need that page to be called every day at 12:00
> that page is going to connect to the database fetch some emails and
> will start mailing them how i am goning to do this.[/color]
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> can i do it using cron in cpanel[/color]

erm maybe - if you gave some clues about what OS it's running on. Also WTF
is cpanel?

Certianly on *nix/Linux box cron is the tool to run jobs at regular
intervals but:

1) you need appropriate permissions to submit cron jobs
2) you'll need to either run it using the standalone PHP executable (which
may or may not be installed on your system) or use a command line tool like
curl/lynx/wget... to fetch the page from the webserver.

C.

[Chuck Anderson]

Re: can i do it using cron in cpanel

sherryonline@gm ail.com wrote:
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>i have a page and i need that page to be called every day at 12:00
>that page is going to connect to the database fetch some emails and
>will start mailing them how i am goning to do this.
>
>
>[/color]
Just as you thought. Use the cpanel cron manager. (Are you having a
specific problem?)

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[sherryonline@gmail.com]

Re: can i do it using cron in cpanel

can you guys write for me a command for me, like i have a page in
www.mydomain.com/demo/messages.php and i want this page to be called
from the cron job after every day

[sherryonline@gmail.com]

Re: can i do it using cron in cpanel

i am using cpanel and i am a webmaster my project is developed in php
and i can see that i have cron job faclility in cpanel. With standard
and advance options can you please tell me which command should i set
up so that it could open mypage.php every day . Thanks i advance

[George Self]

Re: can i do it using cron in cpanel

sherryonline@gm ail.com wrote:
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> can you guys write for me a command for me, like i have a page in
> www.mydomain.com/demo/messages.php and i want this page to be called
> from the cron job after every day[/color]

There are others who are much smarter than me and may be able to give you
better advice. However, it crosses my mind that you may want to look at
lynx. This is a text-only browser that will open a file from the command
line. It will also process commands from a script. I would think it would
be an easy job to create a short lynx script to open your php file and then
exit. I suspect that if lynx simply accesses the php file it would "run"
the code for you. It would then be a trivial exercise to insert that script
into your crontab.

--George

[Gleep]

Re: can i do it using cron in cpanel

cron can be tricky to set up and it depends on how your ISP has things set up.
but if you can get to the cron tab section you need to enter a command like this

/usr/bin/php /home/httpd/vhosts/YOUR_DOMMANI.CO M/httpdocs/clients/CRON.php > /dev/null

the first part of string tells cron "hey i want to run a PHP cron file and this is the location
where PHP is located

then there is a space

then you need to specifiy the full path to the (the way the server sees it to the file you want to
run as a cron)

you also set the time interval if you want daily at noon put a 12 in the hours box
you can put * in the other boxes

another tip create a file called phpinfo.php
in that file

<?php
phpinfo();
?>


save > upload > and then run that file you will see all the settings and paths your server uses
good tip for figuring out the cron command paths



On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 09:18:17 +0100, Colin McKinnon <colin.deleteth is@andthis.mms3 .com> wrote:
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>sherryonline@g mail.com wrote:
>[color=green]
>> i have a page and i need that page to be called every day at 12:00
>> that page is going to connect to the database fetch some emails and
>> will start mailing them how i am goning to do this.[/color]
>[color=green]
>> can i do it using cron in cpanel[/color]
>
>erm maybe - if you gave some clues about what OS it's running on. Also WTF
>is cpanel?
>
>Certianly on *nix/Linux box cron is the tool to run jobs at regular
>intervals but:
>
>1) you need appropriate permissions to submit cron jobs
>2) you'll need to either run it using the standalone PHP executable (which
>may or may not be installed on your system) or use a command line tool like
>curl/lynx/wget... to fetch the page from the webserver.
>
>C.[/color]