question

Not sure if PHP is right for this... but maybe you guys can point me the
right way.

I want a website that with the click of a button by someone accross the web
can run a predefined scheduled task on the web server.

Any ideas?

On Mar 19, 12:45 am, "Alan Larsson" <newsgr...@alstown.com> wrote:
> Not sure if PHP is right for this... but maybe you guys can point me the
> right way.
>
> I want a website that with the click of a button by someone accross the web
> can run a predefined scheduled task on the web server.
You hopefully talk about Linux.

Here is how I would do it: Set up cron (using crontab -e) so that
it executes a script that checks periodically for a file (for example;
I think this is easier). This file is created by a Php or Perl script
run
in the web server. If the file exists the script triggered by cron
executes the predefined scheduled task.

Hope it helps.

Cheers
Jurij

Alan Larsson schrieb:
> Not sure if PHP is right for this... but maybe you guys can point me the
> right way.
>
> I want a website that with the click of a button by someone accross the web
> can run a predefined scheduled task on the web server.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>

What is this predefined task? Is there a shell script or program you can
already run from the command line, but want to trigger through a web
page request as well?

If Apache and your PHP settings have the sufficient permission needed to
execute system commands, then that will work - the relevant function is
system() - as in system("ls -l").

If you want to code the entire scheduled task in PHP, it will depend
more on what it actually deals with - files, database changes, etc...

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Christoph Burschka