How do you make a script run automatically?

[Spidah]

Please forgive me if this has been asked before.

Is it possible to have a php script run automatically?

I am talking about the sort of script that handles regular activities such
as issuing invoices, reminders etc? How are these run? Does somebody have to
go in and push a button, do you have to tell the
server to run these scripts at a particular time, or is there another way?

Thanks

Hamilton

[Michael Fesser]

.oO(Spidah)

Please forgive me if this has been asked before.

Is it possible to have a php script run automatically?

With a cronjob (Unix/Linux) or another kind of scheduling mechanismn.

Micha

[Ed Jones]

Michael Fesser wrote:

.oO(Spidah)

Please forgive me if this has been asked before.

Is it possible to have a php script run automatically?

With a cronjob (Unix/Linux) or another kind of scheduling mechanismn.

....and only if PHP's installed as a CGI (on Unix/Linux).

Ed

[Daniel Tryba]

Ed Jones <ho*************@edjones.org> wrote:

Is it possible to have a php script run automatically?

With a cronjob (Unix/Linux) or another kind of scheduling mechanismn.

...and only if PHP's installed as a CGI (on Unix/Linux).

BS:
* 0 * * * lynx http://localhost/shedule/this/script.php

Where lynx can be replaced by lots of other commands (like nc, wget,
w3m, curl...)

--

Daniel Tryba

[lawrence]

"Spidah" <h.*********@eggstra.co.nz> wrote in message news:<OJ*******************@news.xtra.co.nz>...

Please forgive me if this has been asked before.

Is it possible to have a php script run automatically?

I am talking about the sort of script that handles regular activities such
as issuing invoices, reminders etc? How are these run? Does somebody have to
go in and push a button, do you have to tell the
server to run these scripts at a particular time, or is there another way?

Use PHP 5 which makes it easy to turn a script into a daemon that can
run as a normal service on any computer. Then just write the script as
you would any other computer program, launch it once and it will run
forever. If you want a reminder, just have it keep a list of dates (in
an array, or XML, or a database, or anything else) and it can send a
message to standard output when you need the reminder, or, better, it
can send you an email.

[Ed Jones]

Daniel Tryba wrote:

Ed Jones <ho*************@edjones.org> wrote:

...and only if PHP's installed as a CGI (on Unix/Linux).

BS:
* 0 * * * lynx http://localhost/shedule/this/script.php

Where lynx can be replaced by lots of other commands (like nc, wget,
w3m, curl...)

Yeah, cool - hadn't thought of doing it like that :-)

Ed

[Spidah]

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Please forgive me if this has been asked before.

Is it possible to have a php script run automatically?

I am talking about the sort of script that handles regular activities
such
as issuing invoices, reminders etc? How are these run? Does somebody have
to
go in and push a button, do you have to tell the
server to run these scripts at a particular time, or is there another
way?

Use PHP 5 which makes it easy to turn a script into a daemon that can
run as a normal service on any computer. Then just write the script as
you would any other computer program, launch it once and it will run
forever. If you want a reminder, just have it keep a list of dates (in
an array, or XML, or a database, or anything else) and it can send a
message to standard output when you need the reminder, or, better, it
can send you an email.

Firstly thanks to everyone who has responded.

How would I go about turning a PHP5 script into a daemon? This sounds like
it could be the solution I need?

Regards

Hamilton

[lawrence]

"Spidah" <h.*********@eggstra.co.nz> wrote in message

Firstly thanks to everyone who has responded.

How would I go about turning a PHP5 script into a daemon? This sounds like
it could be the solution I need?

Sams (the publisher) I think has a new book out on PHP 5 which has a
good chapter on running PHP 5 as a daemon. I read most of it the last
time I was in a Barnes and Noble bookstore (I'm in America right now).

There should also be documentation on the www.php.net site, but I
haven't found it. Haven't looked much either.