I.A. Gray <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
    on Thursday, June 10, 2004 3:03 AM said:

> I am wanting to use a PHP script to check on an hourly/daily basis on
> a few things- ie links on my sites, whether the sites are up and
> running and also to send an e-mail to me.

can you create a crontab for your user?

what you'd need to do is make a file with a cron rule in it then feed
that to 'crontab'. man crontab for more info.

> I can't
> really have this on a web page as wouldn't it time out?

well it would only time out if the page was taking a really long time to
finish processing. otherwise the page could sit there forever and not
time out. what you could do in this case is keep a browser window open
and use the meta-refresh header to refresh the page at a given interval.
this is hardly an ellegant solution but it would work as long as the
browser was kept open.

> I don't have
> my own server and so use a hosting company.  Is there a way of
> running a PHP script on a regular basis (say every 10 or 30 mins, or
> hourly or daily)?

read above.

> Does anyone
> know of any decent link checkers written in PHP that I could
> implement?

in php no. but for regular windows program there's "xenu link sleuth".



chris.

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