crontab help me

[hamza]

i am new in php i need to execute or use the cron tab

what should i do if i need to execute one file

at a particular date of every week.

 

thanks in advance

[Vizor]

Crontab has the format

 

m  h  dom mon dow  command

 

so if you wanted a script to execute every tuesday you would put in your crontab

 

 

  *  *  *  *  2    /home/bin/script.php

 

I'm sure you could work the rest out for yourself.

 

 

[DarkWater]

@Vizor:  You're half-right.  He'd actually need something like:

 

* * * * 2 /usr/bin/php /home/bin/script.php

 

It needs to be run through the PHP parser.

[Vizor]

@DarkWater: So are you.

 

It depends whether or not you add #! /usr/bin/php to the start of your script and then chmod +x it; if you do that then you don't need to specify that it's to be run through the php parser.