hi guys
im sure everyone understands that when you open a php page it executes the script...
my problem is that i want to be able to execute the script without having to open the page.
so say at 12 midnight each night a php script is run to update my database...
thats all i need, is there any way of doing that?
cheers
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autorun php script
Started by The Creator, Dec 07 2007 06:07 PM
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Posted 07 December 2007 - 06:07 PM
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Posted 07 December 2007 - 08:35 PM
You will be wanting to set-up a crontab to execute the PHP file. This can be done quite easily, simply summon the PHP interpreter to execute the PHP file: /path/to/php php_file.php
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Posted 07 December 2007 - 09:25 PM
This is a frequently asked question, please use the forum search/google (ref: cron jobs).
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