How to run PHP Script at certain times?

[techiefreak05]

Hello, I am experimenting with web crawling and spidering and the spider script i have needs to be ran manually. how would i set it to run at certain times? automatically?

[HaLo2FrEeEk]

Its called Cron, google it, I don't know enough about it to help you very well.

[MadTechie]

in basic terms it runs a "job" at a set time,

have a page that does something, then setup a cron job to run at a time (minute/hour/day....) and enter the url to that page..

[HaLo2FrEeEk]

Its a little more advanced than that, but that is the basic essense of it.

[PC Nerd]

if you know windows well, its exactly like a scheduled task.  you tell it where the script is, and when and how often to run it and it does it.

 

your server may or may not offer cron tobs aka cron tabs.  youll have to look into it.

 

either you submit a user friendly form, or you have to code it manually youreflt, in which i recommend googl for a quick tutorial.

 

 

goodluck

[HaLo2FrEeEk]

I had to do it through shell, it was not easy, it was actually very ugly.

[MadTechie]

if you have access to cPanel is has a standard (easy one) but you can use the *nix version (advanced)