For those of you who are experienced, perhaps you can help answer some of my questions...
1) When I run the script directly by calling it in the browser, there are not any errors and it completes in about 2 min 40 seconds. Yet when I call it in cron, it can take as much as an hour to complete, and sometimes it hangs.
2) I've been using two different commands: /usr/bin/php -q /path/to/script and wget -q http :// direct path to script .php . Is there a better way to do this?
3) I've duplicated the script into different filenames, such as fileA.php, and fileB.php. If I want to do twice the work, would it make sense to cron fileA.php and cron fileB.php?
4) Am I correct in assuming that cron will run my php script the same way that a web browser would?
Thanks for your help. It's much appreciated!
M.