Automating Tasks

[mawheatley]

Sorry - I'm new to this, and I hope I have it in the right place. What I want to do should be really simple, but it has me completely baffled. I have written a PHP script that does exactly what I want it to do, when I view it through the browser, i.e. http://mydomain.com/script.php

All I want to do is make this happen automatically, once a day. I believe it is something to do with CRON, and I feel like I've read the whole internet looking for the answer, but nothing I do works. Can anyone help me, or at least point me in the right direction?

Thanks in advance

[gdwoods]

a few links to try:

http://www.linuxhelp.net/guides/cron/

http://www.unixgeeks.org/security/ne...ix/cron-1.html

http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/usail/automation/cron.html

[Stef]

In your cPanel select Cron Jobs to schedule them.
To specify the time and day, the above links gdwoods posted will explain you how to do it.

For for a php script you can enter in the command box:
GET http://www.yourdomain.com/subfolder/script.php >/dev/null
or
php -q /home/<username>/public_html/subfolder/script.php >/dev/null

Stef.