PHP and Crontab and Current Directory

[roger.moon2@googlemail.com]

So I wrote a script and at the top it checks whether a file exists
like below

if (!file_exists(" settings.ini"))
return false;

and the crontab entry:

00 08 * * 4 /usr/local/bin/php /home/user/scripts/test.php /dev/null
2>&1

however everytime it runs via cron, it can't find the file
settings.ini because it keeps looking for it in $HOME not in $HOME/
scripts/ where test.php resides

Why? And how can I re-code it to look in the current directory not in
$HOME? I tried ./settings.ini but without success

[Rik]

Re: PHP and Crontab and Current Directory

Euhm, check my reply to your previous post?

--
Rik Wasmus

Estimated date being able to walk again: 01-05-2007.
Less then a week, hurray!

[Michael Placentra II]

Re: PHP and Crontab and Current Directory

roger.moon2@goo glemail.com wrote:

So I wrote a script and at the top it checks whether a file exists
like below
>
if (!file_exists(" settings.ini"))
return false;
>
and the crontab entry:
>
00 08 * * 4 /usr/local/bin/php /home/user/scripts/test.php /dev/null
2>&1
>
however everytime it runs via cron, it can't find the file
settings.ini because it keeps looking for it in $HOME not in $HOME/
scripts/ where test.php resides
>
Why? And how can I re-code it to look in the current directory not in
$HOME? I tried ./settings.ini but without success
>

You can change the working directory with chdir() near the top of your script:

#!/usr/local/bin/php -q
<?php
chdir( '/home/user/scripts' );

//...
?>

That should make file_exists() work as expected.

If it doesn't do what you want it to do, you can try instead using:

ini_set( 'include_path', '/home/user/scripts' );

To temporarily set it as the (only) include path in the ini settings.

-Mike PII

[Michael Placentra II]

Re: PHP and Crontab and Current Directory

Sorry Rik, didn't notice your reply to the last one (I didn't even notice the last one).

-Mike PII

[Rik]

Re: PHP and Crontab and Current Directory

Michael Placentra II wrote:

Sorry Rik, didn't notice your reply to the last one (I didn't even
notice the last one).

Hehehe, neither did he :-)

--
Rik Wasmus

Estimated date being able to walk again: 01-05-2007.
Less then a week, hurray!

[roger.moon2@googlemail.com]

Re: PHP and Crontab and Current Directory

On Apr 25, 10:26 pm, Rik <luiheidsgoe... @hotmail.comwro te:

Euhm, check my reply to your previous post?
>

Sorry about that, didn't show up and thought I had crossposted to too
many groups and got halted by anti-spam scripts.

Anyway your advice worked however the problem is I have to edit the
script everytime I run the program via Cron

Instead after some googling I found this method of instead:

00 11 * * * cd /home/user1/files/; /usr/local/bin/php test.php