[sujata_ghosh]

Hi!

I would like to introduce a PHP script, which take the user email from database and send email to our client on his/her birthday as well as when a specific service will end on the basic of end date, automatically.

the script will execute automatically everyday without any user interaction. As most of the forum use Corn Script to send email to the member on his/her birthday.

I can't understand how and where i put the script on my Linux webserver so that its runs everyday automatically.

Can anyone help me with this perticular issue?

[scribby]

For the cron job it would be something like..

php -q /home/yourusername/public_html/script.php

[sujata_ghosh]

thanks for the reply!

but sorry i can't understand it properly. I am very new in world of PHP, please make it more detailed. so that i can understand what to do and how to set this script on my webserver.

Please help me.

[Christian]

This has some useful info about cron jobs http://www.unixgeeks.org/security/ne...ix/cron-1.html.

[sujata_ghosh]

Thanks Christian!

for these usefull information.

The moral is that, the Cron is already installed and running on Linux server or the webserver where our WEbsite is running, onlything I have to do is pass the script filename (whether is .cgi or .pl or .php) and time when this file will be executed automatically. after reading that cron topic, I have realise that it all example based on personal/local linux server where a person can easily add or modify or check whether the corn is running or not. am I rite?

now the question is how do i set my corntab? should i connact to our ISP for all setting or is there any other way to do it from myself? how do i execute those commande line code at webserver sitting at my local PC.

Please tell me what I need to do?

[sujata_ghosh]

We have decided to move to the new server and on the new server control point we have find one option called 'Crontab' with following options.

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Show Crontab of: a list of following option [ root bin daemon adm lp sync shutdown halt mail news uucp operator games gopher ftp (FTP User) nobody (Nobody) rpm vcsa (virtual console memory owner) nscd (NSCD Daemon) sshd (Privilege-separated SSH) rpc (Portmapper RPC user) rpcuser (RPC Service User) nfsnobody (Anonymous NFS User) mailnull smmsp pcap apache (Apache) ntp webalizer (Webalizer) named (Named) mysql (MySQL Server) psaadm (Plesk user) psaftp (anonftp psa user) client1 alias qmaild qmaill qmailp qmailq qmailr qmails popuser ]

2) Send Crontab messages to address [we have to put email address]

3) TasksCrontab tasks (5)

S Min H DM M DW Command
1 * * * * echo "crontab job 1"
2 * * * * echo "crontab job 2"
3 * * * * echo "crontab job 3"
4 * * * * echo "crontab job 4"
5 * * * * echo "crontab job 5"
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can i add path of script at Crontab? or this command 'php -q /home/yourusername/public_html/script.php'

so on perticular time this script executed automaticaly without any page load through visitor or interaction from us.

I need your help guys to setup the above things.

Thanks.

[End User]

Basic cron tutorial..........

Crontab is like an alarm clock. It's a TASK SCHEDULER. It's just a text file you create on your webserver (if they allow crontab - if they don't then MOVE to a REAL ISP.). The crontab file looks like this (below)

0 * * * * /etc/reset.cgi
0 0 * * * /etc/resetlogs.cgi

So what does this mean? Very simple. In this example we have a crontab file that contains 2 commands. A crontab file can have any number of commands. You put one command per line so [ 0 * * * * * /etc/reset.cgi ] is COMMAND ONE and [ 0 0 * * * /etc/resetlogs.cgi ] is COMMAND TWO.

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