Scheduling in PHP

[usamaalam]

Hello everybody,

I am using this tutorial to configure a PHP script to run every 3 minutes.

http://usertools.plus.net/tutorials/id/1

But I am unable to understand how can I access crontab on the hosting server and where to write these scheduling info.

Thanks.

[john tindell]

What control panel are you using. cron only works on linux machines so if your hosted on windows your out of luck. Although im sure that the schecdualing in windows could be used with the AT command.

The AT command schedules commands and programs to run on a computer at
a specified time and date. The Schedule service must be running to use
the AT command.

AT [\\computername] [ [id] [/DELETE] | /DELETE [/YES]]
AT [\\computername] time [/INTERACTIVE]
    [ /EVERY:date[,...] | /NEXT:date[,...]] "command"

\\computername     Specifies a remote computer. Commands are scheduled on the
                   local computer if this parameter is omitted.
id                 Is an identification number assigned to a scheduled
                   command.
/delete            Cancels a scheduled command. If id is omitted, all the
                   scheduled commands on the computer are canceled.
/yes               Used with cancel all jobs command when no further
                   confirmation is desired.
time               Specifies the time when command is to run.
/interactive       Allows the job to interact with the desktop of the user
                   who is logged on at the time the job runs.
/every:date[,...]  Runs the command on each specified day(s) of the week or
                   month. If date is omitted, the current day of the month
                   is assumed.
/next:date[,...]   Runs the specified command on the next occurrence of the
                   day (for example, next Thursday).  If date is omitted, the
                   current day of the month is assumed.
"command"          Is the Windows NT command, or batch program to be run.

[usamaalam]

I'm on linux.

Thanks.

[john tindell]

Have you tried asking your hosting company, they might need to giv eyou access to a shell account or something.

[usamaalam]

I have just sent them an e-mail to give me shell access.

Thanks.

[usamaalam]

This is what the hosting company says about cron. I am still unable to understand how to set up. Any help will be appreciable.

http://www.verio.com/support/documen...fm?doc_id=3900

Thanks.