How to have a script run automaticly everyday at certain time

[DigitalGuard]

Hello,

 

I have a php script and i want it to run automaticly everyday at a certain time, how can i do this?

 

Thanks

DigitalGuard

[mikesta707]

i believe you can accomplish this with cron jobs.

 

here you go:

http://www.google.com/search?q=cron+job+tutorial&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

 

take your pick from the tutorials listed there

[DigitalGuard]

i believe you can accomplish this with cron jobs.

 

here you go:

http://www.google.com/search?q=cron+job+tutorial&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

 

take your pick from the tutorials listed there

 

Cron job is for UNIX script not to run php, how can i run the php?

[.josh]

You can setup a cron job to run a php script every x amount of time.

[DigitalGuard]

You can setup a cron job to run a php script every x amount of time.

 

I did try it did not work, then i read somewhere that cron is to run unix script and not PHP file. So what can i do.?

 

Thanks

 

[mikesta707]

taken from: http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum88/6102.htm

 

 

 

If you don't have the php cgi installed you can use wget to run a php script via cron.

 

The command is simply:

wget -O /dev/null http://www.example.com/somescript.php

The -O /dev/null part means send the output to the null device so that no disk space is taken up with the HTML (or whatever) output from your script.

 

hope that helps!

[DigitalGuard]

taken from: http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum88/6102.htm

 

 

 

If you don't have the php cgi installed you can use wget to run a php script via cron.

 

The command is simply:

wget -O /dev/null http://www.example.com/somescript.php

The -O /dev/null part means send the output to the null device so that no disk space is taken up with the HTML (or whatever) output from your script.

 

hope that helps!

 

 

Thank you let me give it a try.

[bundyxc]

If by some chance cron jobs don't work, I've been working on a simple cron job alternative that runs your script every day at a certain time. It requires a MySQL database to run, but I could probably tweak it to work without it, and just use a flatfile.

[thebadbad]

If by some chance cron jobs don't work, I've been working on a simple cron job alternative that runs your script every day at a certain time. It requires a MySQL database to run, but I could probably tweak it to work without it, and just use a flatfile.

 

How does that work, if I may ask?

[DigitalGuard]

If by some chance cron jobs don't work, I've been working on a simple cron job alternative that runs your script every day at a certain time. It requires a MySQL database to run, but I could probably tweak it to work without it, and just use a flatfile.

 

This did not work, can you please help me out with your script...

[dadamssg]

do you have cpanel?

[DigitalGuard]

do you have cpanel?

Yes

[dadamssg]

look in your cpanel and you'll see the cron job button near the bottom under "Advanced" click on that then click 'standard'.

 

then on the command to run line put something like this

php /home/yourusername/public_html/afolder/ascript.php

 

make sure you have a space after 'php' though

 

then set the timer

[DigitalGuard]

look in your cpanel and you'll see the cron job button near the bottom under "Advanced" click on that then click 'standard'.

 

then on the command to run line put something like this

php /home/yourusername/public_html/afolder/ascript.php

 

make sure you have a space after 'php' though

 

then set the timer

 

that did not work...

[dadamssg]

then you probably didn't write the command line right....or you didn't set the timer to like every minute to check.

[DigitalGuard]

Okay this is what i put

 

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php /home/username/public_html/portscanner.php?domain=domain.com&rangestart=60&rangestop=100

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I set it to run every min, of every hour, of every day, of every year...

 

Still does not work,

[mikesta707]

um... I think instead of username you have to put the actual USERNAME of your ftp account or something like that

[dadamssg]

i don't think you can have variables on the end of it. Try putting those inside the script...the domain and rangestart and stop. Then is portscanner.php in any folder? or is it right next to your index.php file?

[DigitalGuard]

i don't think you can have variables on the end of it. Try putting those inside the script...the domain and rangestart and stop. Then is portscanner.php in any folder? or is it right next to your index.php file?

 

Finally worked,

 

its running with the following...

 

/ramdisk/bin/php5 /home/username/public_html/portscan.php