RE: [PHP-DB] Newbie:Backend scripts
windows 2000 has a command called 'at' .. which is somewhat like crontab. and there is no reason to run lynx and whatever. php for windows has an exe for a reason 'php.exe c:\path\to\phpfile.php' schedule that every two hours. Mats Remman PHP Developer/Mysql DBA Coretrek, Norway +47 51978597 / +47 916 23566 -Original Message- From: PHPFAN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 4:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Newbie:Backend scripts Thank you very much for your help Beau!!! Sagil. Beau Lebens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... // OK, i just checked and tested (jeez i'm a nice guy.. :P) and // dodgy Windoze // schedule doesn't allow you to do it by the hour, so if you // want it every 2 // hours, you'll have to set one, daily at 2am, one daily at // 4am etc etc, all // doing the same thing. change this, under the Schedule Advanced settings for the scheduled event you can Repeat Task every x minutes/hours etc, so only need one scheduled event for it all :) beau -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [PHP-DB] Newbie:Backend scripts
Sagil, the way I do something like this is write a script using PHP that does exactly what you want, without any input or anything like that, then just set up cron to run that script every 2 hours. you can use either lynx to hit it as a webpage, or it's an admin script or something that you don't want other people to be able to hit (because it'd be in the web-root) then you can put it outside the documentroot and use the php cgi to run it. if you use lynx, do something like this in your crontab entry (the 'timing' might be wrong) * 2,4,6,8,10,12 * * * lynx -source http://yourscript /dev/null that will just get the source of the page, then pipe it to the 'bin' so to speak, but in doing this, it will perform whatever operations you have told it to in the script HTH Beau // -Original Message- // From: PHPFAN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] // Sent: Friday, 6 July 2001 9:43 AM // To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // Subject: [PHP-DB] Newbie:Backend scripts // // // Hi, // // I am using php4 with mssql backend loaded on windows 2000. // // Here is my problem: // // I want to update my database contents every 2 hours with some sql // statements. // Is there anyway I can write scripts in php and run them // every 2 hours? // Anyother solutions are most welcome. // // Thank You, // Sagil. // // // // -- // PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) // To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // To contact the list administrators, e-mail: // [EMAIL PROTECTED] // -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP-DB] Newbie:Backend scripts
Hello Beau Lebens, Thank you very much for the advice. I am using windows 2000/NT.So do you happen to know how to handle it in windows? Sagil. Beau Lebens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Sagil, the way I do something like this is write a script using PHP that does exactly what you want, without any input or anything like that, then just set up cron to run that script every 2 hours. you can use either lynx to hit it as a webpage, or it's an admin script or something that you don't want other people to be able to hit (because it'd be in the web-root) then you can put it outside the documentroot and use the php cgi to run it. if you use lynx, do something like this in your crontab entry (the 'timing' might be wrong) * 2,4,6,8,10,12 * * * lynx -source http://yourscript /dev/null that will just get the source of the page, then pipe it to the 'bin' so to speak, but in doing this, it will perform whatever operations you have told it to in the script HTH Beau // -Original Message- // From: PHPFAN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] // Sent: Friday, 6 July 2001 9:43 AM // To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // Subject: [PHP-DB] Newbie:Backend scripts // // // Hi, // // I am using php4 with mssql backend loaded on windows 2000. // // Here is my problem: // // I want to update my database contents every 2 hours with some sql // statements. // Is there anyway I can write scripts in php and run them // every 2 hours? // Anyother solutions are most welcome. // // Thank You, // Sagil. // // // // -- // PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) // To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // To contact the list administrators, e-mail: // [EMAIL PROTECTED] // -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [PHP-DB] Newbie:Backend scripts
Sagil, you can get a binary for lynx from the web (search for it, can't remember url off the top of my head :P), install that, then make a quick batch file such as; scheduled.bat- @echo off c: cd \lynx\ lynx -source %1 scheduled.bat- then, when you run this script, you can do something like scheduled http://yourscript and it will hit that page with lynx, and grab the source. now, using the windows scheduled service thing (My Computer | Control Panel | Scheduled Tasks ) you *should* be able to schedule this batch file to run whenever you want, with the parameter (webpage) you want it to hit. OK, i just checked and tested (jeez i'm a nice guy.. :P) and dodgy Windoze schedule doesn't allow you to do it by the hour, so if you want it every 2 hours, you'll have to set one, daily at 2am, one daily at 4am etc etc, all doing the same thing. in the Run: box, you can do something like this (my line exactly) C:\scheduled.bat http://www.dentedreality.com.au which will run the batch file, and hit that webpage. P.S. if you wanted to be really tricky, make the PHP script do some output *not* in html, so just something like Backup @ 2001-07-05 12:02:34 Operation Successful or whatever, then rather than lynx -source %1 in the batch file, do something like lynx -source %1 c:\backup_log.txt which would append the output of the php script continuously to the same file ENJOY! beau // -Original Message- // From: PHPFAN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] // Sent: Friday, 6 July 2001 10:20 AM // To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Newbie:Backend scripts // // // Hello Beau Lebens, // // Thank you very much for the advice. // I am using windows 2000/NT.So do you happen to know how to // handle it in // windows? // // Sagil. // // // Beau Lebens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message // [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... // Sagil, // the way I do something like this is write a script using // PHP that does // exactly what you want, without any input or anything like // that, then just // set up cron to run that script every 2 hours. you can use // either lynx to // hit // it as a webpage, or it's an admin script or something that // you don't want // other people to be able to hit (because it'd be in the // web-root) then you // can put it outside the documentroot and use the php cgi to run it. // // if you use lynx, do something like this in your crontab entry (the // 'timing' // might be wrong) // // * 2,4,6,8,10,12 * * * lynx -source // http://yourscript /dev/null // // that will just get the source of the page, then pipe it to // the 'bin' so to // speak, but in doing this, it will perform whatever // operations you have // told // it to in the script // // HTH // // Beau // // // -Original Message- // // From: PHPFAN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] // // Sent: Friday, 6 July 2001 9:43 AM // // To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // // Subject: [PHP-DB] Newbie:Backend scripts // // // // // // Hi, // // // // I am using php4 with mssql backend loaded on windows 2000. // // // // Here is my problem: // // // // I want to update my database contents every 2 hours // with some sql // // statements. // // Is there anyway I can write scripts in php and run them // // every 2 hours? // // Anyother solutions are most welcome. // // // // Thank You, // // Sagil. // // // // // // // // -- // // PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) // // To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // // For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // // To contact the list administrators, e-mail: // // [EMAIL PROTECTED] // // // // // // -- // PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) // To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // To contact the list administrators, e-mail: // [EMAIL PROTECTED] // -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [PHP-DB] Newbie:Backend scripts
// OK, i just checked and tested (jeez i'm a nice guy.. :P) and // dodgy Windoze // schedule doesn't allow you to do it by the hour, so if you // want it every 2 // hours, you'll have to set one, daily at 2am, one daily at // 4am etc etc, all // doing the same thing. change this, under the Schedule Advanced settings for the scheduled event you can Repeat Task every x minutes/hours etc, so only need one scheduled event for it all :) beau -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP-DB] Newbie:Backend scripts
Thank you very much for your help Beau!!! Sagil. Beau Lebens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... // OK, i just checked and tested (jeez i'm a nice guy.. :P) and // dodgy Windoze // schedule doesn't allow you to do it by the hour, so if you // want it every 2 // hours, you'll have to set one, daily at 2am, one daily at // 4am etc etc, all // doing the same thing. change this, under the Schedule Advanced settings for the scheduled event you can Repeat Task every x minutes/hours etc, so only need one scheduled event for it all :) beau -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
