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Scheduling a Task

I want to be able to schedule a script (hopefully php) to run at a specified tme each day.

How can I do that?

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Richard Korts

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To Autogard:

Thanks for that detail information.

I need to make this work on a remote web server. I only have ftp access to it.

Lets take a VERY SPECIFIC example.

Suppose I wanted a php script housed in a folder called c:/websites/rkassociates.com/LSS/ to be run at 2AM daily. Suppose further the script was called savetrans.php.

How EXACTLY would I do that?

Thanks

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Autogard

Sorry for the delayed response... Yeah, if you only have ftp access I don't think you will be able to use cron then to schedule your task. You would need to have the remote server administrator agree to set up the cron for you.

Also, why would your php script be in c:/<whatever>? I thought this was a linux question? Is the server you want the cron to run on a windows/linux machine?

Here is a trick you could try though -- you could set up your own machine (through cron or otherwise) to automatically access the php page on the web server at 2AM just using a browser like firefox or even a text browser. Of course your own machine would have to be turned on every morning at 2AM for this to work. Is that something you would be interested in trying out?

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