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Automation using Windows Scheduler?

Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 12:04 pm
by lawrenceboland
I have a PHP based site that is hosted by an outside company. I am not allowed to use unix based cronjob's on their machines. Is there any way that I can have windows scheduler or something else to run a php page on my website every 10 minutes between the hours of 9:30am and 4pm? Hopefully looking for something that runs in the background of my home computer.

Thanks for any advice.

-Bo

Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 12:15 pm
by josh
If you install php on your computer, you can write a script that runs a script on your server (by downloading the page), and run it on the CLI from a batch file

Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 12:17 pm
by lawrenceboland
I'm sorry... can you say that like you're explaining it to a 2 year old? :-)

You want me to install php onto my desktop. What is "CLI"? And are you saying that I write a windows batch file? Can I make this execute at a certain time?

Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 12:19 pm
by feyd
CLI = Command Line Interface

on Windows machines, research the "at" command line tool, which allows you to interact with the scheduler..