[Techtalk] A PHP script in a crontab.

[adam]

> I have written a PHP script that I want to be executed
> automatically by  using cron.  But the problem is that
> nothing happens when I run it that  way.
> 
> The script runs in a web browser, and works as I want it
> to, but when I  put it in a cron tab, nothing happens.  I
> can think of 2 possible causes  of error.  (1) I am
> calling it wrong, I have been told by the web hoster  that
> the call statement should be something like this:
> 
> "GET http://www.hostyorkshire.com/scgi-bin/script.php >
> /dev/null "

GET is an alias installed by lib-web-perl... basically it's
a single-event, non-rendering webbrowser...
to the script, this will seem almost the same as if a real
browser got the file (different headers are the only thing)



> I am not sure what the GET does!  This doesn't work.
> 
> (2) the other possible cause is that the PHP code won't
> work if its not  executed in a web browser.  Does anyone
> know if this is so, and what I  have to do to make it
> work?
> 
> thanks
> 
> sue
> 
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