Cron Reasearch

Hi,

I'm doing a little research for a freebie script I'm building and wondered if any of you could help. Basically the script is to do with Cron and Running a PHP file, all I am looking for is possible methods of running a PHP script from the crontab.

At the moment I have the most common 3:

wgets
fetch
lynx

Are there any others I should be bothered about?

Cheers

I am pretty sure that PHP includes functions simular to that used in perl, located in PHP's PEAR... only way to know is to have a look on the PHP.net / Zend websites.

Some info that might help...

Shell Scripting with PHP:
http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/darrell20000319.php3

PEAR:
http://pear.php.net/package-search....D&submit=Search

Some scripts that have already been done:
http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Scrip...Search_Engines/

If you fail you there is always PERL:
http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/...ning/page1.html

But I don't think ya will...

Compile php as a binary and cron like this:

* * * * * * myPhpScript.php

First line would be:

#! /path/to/php.exe -q

Thanks for the response's, much appreciated.

Ron, do you know if it's possible to check the install type of PHP be it binary or module?

Cheers

If php.exe is on the system (usually in /usr/local/bin/ ) then a binary has been installed. There's not an easy way to check, even with phpinfo(), since a module and an executable could both be installed. You could use phpinfo() but that would just tell you if the web server is using a module or exe, not whether or not the exe existed.

Well I suppose I can run a check to see if php.exe is present (If my script has access) and if so do some stuff otherwise I won`t include this option.

Thanks for the help.