Execute a page daily

[hno]

 

HI

Is it possible to execute a page daily automatically by the server without opening that page by the user? It's like a task scheduler that execute a php page daily.

 

Thanks

[trq]

Yes. You need to tell your systems task scheduler (cron on Linux) to execute your script at a given time.

[hno]

But I can't find that on my host.

What is the name of that in the hosts?

[trq]

Depends on your hosts control panel I guess. I always host my own sites so...

 

Look for crontab or cronjob if your hosted on Linux. Windows (or even cheap Linux hosts) will likely not offer such functionality.

[Goldeneye]

Or... something like this might work...

 

<?php
ignore_user_abort(1); // run script in background
set_time_limit(0); // run script forever
$interval=60*15; // do every 15 minutes...
do{
   // add the script that has to be ran every 15 minutes here
   // ...
   sleep($interval); // wait 15 minutes
}while(true);
?>

 

The code was found here: http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.ignore-user-abort.php

 

Of course, you can change $interval to whatever you want. For example, running a script every 24 hours would be something like, "$interval = 60 * 60 * 24;"

[trq]

You would need shell access to execute this script. If you have shell access you have cron. No need to write your own daemon when a perfectly goods one already exists.

[Goldeneye]

You would need shell access to execute this script. If you have shell access you have cron. No need to write your own daemon when a perfectly goods one already exists.

 

I was not aware of that. Thanks for the enlightenment. So, either method would work, but there's no need to reinvent the wheel.