PHP Script Scheduling ?

Does someone know how to schedule a PHP script (like CFschedule with Cold Fusion for example) ?

Is there a way with the CRON Daemon ?

Yes, there is a way you can cron PHP scripts, but you must have a program that will get web pages. fetch (for FreeBSD) is a good example, but I'm sure there are many others.

Then in the cron tab you would use a command like this:

/usr/bin/fetch http://www.domain.com/dir/file.php3

With the appropriate time specified of course. Basically any program that will grab a page from the web server can be used to automate a PHP script.

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Another option is to compile PHP in CGI form, and use the PHP executable as a script interpreter.

Start your script:

#!/usr/local/php/php {or wherever PHP is}

And mark it executable. Then you can call the script directly from cron.

Is Fetch a text based browser like Lynx under linux ?

No, fetch is a command that comes with FreeBSD systems. fetch is not included with Linux (to the best of my knowledge), but you should be able to use any command that will grab a web page to schedule your scripts.