Re: [cobalt-developers] OT ? Interbase - how to have auto email when db date value is current date

["William L. Thomson Jr." <support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bruce,

On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 15:42, Bruce Timberlake wrote:
>
> > I am not to familiar with PHP. So you are saying that you can use
> > PHP from a shell? Like a Perl or Python script?
> 
> Yep.  Just do "php whatever.php" and away it goes.  There's a php 
> binary in /usr/bin.

Good to know. I was just not sure if PHP had a single binary executable
or not.

> You can test by making a test.php in any directory and putting
> 
> <? phpinfo(); ?>
> 
> in it, then do "php ./test.php" and watch the HTML spew forth.  :)

Fun little thing to do. I may have done that a while back when I was
looking into alternatives to ASP. I liked PHP more than ASP, but
compared to what I can do with Java. Well there was no comparison in my
opinion. Programming and scripting languages are in different leagues.

> Upon further research (Chilisoft forums) about ASP and cron, the lynx 
> kludge I mentioned is the only apparent way to "script" ASP via cron 
> or commandline:
> 
> http://developer.chilisoft.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1663
> 
> So it can be done, just not as elegantly as with PHP, Perl, etc.

So I am not to off base, but I would not recommend people go down that
route unless they have to.

I bet that PHP does not have anywhere near the overhead that ChiliASP
generates. Not to mention additional things like the lynx command.

If the original requester must use ASP. I would email that guy on the
link above doing a similar thing, and ask him about the overhead.

-- 
Sincerely,
William L. Thomson Jr.
Support Group
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