[PLUG] command line php execution

[Jon Jacob]

Why can't they be run on the command line?

Try:

php <script name>

and they should run.

On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 17:38, Derek Loree wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I've got another problem that I need ideas for.  I would like to be able
> to have a php script (or program -- I'm not sure what to call it) run as
> a cron job.  From what I can tell, the interpreter has to be run through
> the web server, which means that I need to be able to call a .php file
> from a command line browser, then have it die when the php script has
> finished doing the voodoo that it needs to do.  Calling the .php file is
> not a big problem, lynx does it well enough from a shell script, but
> convincing it to die at the appropriate time is more problematic.
> 
> I'm sure this is possible, this is linux after all. I think what I need
> is to be able to grab the PID, stuff it in a variable, then kill that
> process.  I can't figure out how to grab the PID though.
> 
> Are there other ways to get this job done?
> 
> TIA
> 
> Derek Loree 
> 
> 
> 
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