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How can I make a PHP script be called from the cron daemon?

Jun 14th, 1999 07:00
Nathan Wallace, Richard Lynch, Adam Trachtenberg, Michael Gerdts, Samuel Liddicott

Compile PHP as CGI (ie, leave off --with-apache or --with-apxs and keep
all the other compile switches the same).

Then, simply add a line to your cron file using crontab -e (see man 5
crontab) like usual.

Don't forget to call php with the -q option to suppress HTTP headers.

Alternatively, if you have access to lynx you can leave PHP alone and
put the following into your crontab.

    lynx -dump http://www.myhost.com/myscript.phtml

crontab mails you the results of the script automatically.  You can
suppress this mail from being sent by redirecting the output to a file:

    lynx -dump http://www.myhost.com/myscript.phtml >somefile.html