Run PHP file as cronjob

[Mossum]

Hello,

I have a PHP file that reads another PHP file and writes it as a static
HTML page. I'd like to run the first PHP file as a cronjob (so that the
static HTML page is updated once an hour).

I'm familiar with scheduling a cronjob and all the PHP is working
perfectly. I don't know how to get cron to "run" a PHP file however.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

[Tommy Gildseth]

Re: Run PHP file as cronjob

Mossum wrote:[color=blue]
> Hello,
>
> I have a PHP file that reads another PHP file and writes it as a static
> HTML page. I'd like to run the first PHP file as a cronjob (so that the
> static HTML page is updated once an hour).
>
> I'm familiar with scheduling a cronjob and all the PHP is working
> perfectly. I don't know how to get cron to "run" a PHP file however.
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
>[/color]

Alt 1:
If you have the CLI version of PHP installed, simply write
@hourly /path/to/php/interpreter/php /path/to/php/script.php

Alt 2:
Use wget/lynx/curl etc etc to fetch the file via the webserver. You can
then either echo the content out, and have wget/...etc save it to
wherever you want it, or you can still do this in the PHP-script, and
don't return any content to wget

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Tommy Gildseth

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[Mossum]

Re: Run PHP file as cronjob


Tommy,

Thank you! I tried scheduling a cron job with fetch -- and it works.

[Mladen Gogala]

Re: Run PHP file as cronjob

On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 12:51:08 -0700, Mossum wrote:
[color=blue]
> I'm familiar with scheduling a cronjob and all the PHP is working
> perfectly. I don't know how to get cron to "run" a PHP file however.
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated.[/color]

Beginning it with
#!/usr/bin/php or #!/usr/local/bin/php would be a good start. Also,
change protection to 755, so that httpd process can open it.

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