Re: [cobalt-users] PHP via cronjob

[Ricky Dhatt <ricky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 5 Mar 2001 flash22@xxxxxxx wrote:

> On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Hendrik Runte wrote:
>
> > Hi Manuel,
> > according to the php manual it\'s said to be possible to run a php script as
> > a shell script quite similar to the perl way (I haven\'t tried, so far):
> > Hendrik Runte
> > Zitiere Manuel Schmidt <m.schmidt@xxxxxxxxx>:
> >
> > > Hi list,
> > > i have a \"cron job\" question.
> > > how can i run a *.php script on a RaQ4 through an cronjob?
> > > Hope, anyone can give me advice...
>
> Another sneaky way to run any script as a
>  cron job is to just use wget.
>
> eg in the script run wget "http://whateverdomain/script.php";

Exactly! but I use a couple of options to make it neater:

wget --quiet --spider http://whateverdomain/script.php

--quiet 	quiet (no output).
--spider        don't download anything.

--Ricky Dhatt
IT Specialist
Electric Arrow Web Development Studio
Phone: 206-381-5853