need cron jop php function [moved]

[fras]

hi all

i am php programer and i am about programing informations site that need to update

i add 30 files to cpanel cron jop by manaul

but it not easy and take more time

is there any additional function i use it
in my program to add this files to cpanel cron jop automaticaly?


and thanks to evry body

[freedman]

hi all

i am php programer and i am about programing informations site that need to update

i add 30 files to cpanel cron jop by manaul

but it not easy and take more time

is there any additional function i use it
in my program to add this files to cpanel cron jop automaticaly?


and thanks to evry body

it depends which cpanel cron job you're referring to...

if you're talking about things running as root, best is to just put a link to them in /etc/cron.daily (or hourly, monthly, etc..)

if it's a script that runs as a user, then just install it in that users cron job the normal way.

If it's something that you wan tto run after cpanels daily update, then make a script called /scripts/postupcp and that gets executed after the daily cpanel update.

[fras]

Hi freedman
my dear

i need for example to run this file http://domain.com/file.php
as cron jop from cpanel
so to do that i most login into cpanel
and go to cron jop after that go to standerd
and write the this file and made choice to run this file

what i need do made my script do that for me automaticaly
when i use this option to do that i gave the script site user name and site password

i hope you got my point now

[freedman]

Hi freedman
my dear

i need for example to run this file http://domain.com/file.php
as cron jop from cpanel
so to do that i most login into cpanel
and go to cron jop after that go to standerd
and write the this file and made choice to run this file

what i need do made my script do that for me automaticaly
when i use this option to do that i gave the script site user name and site password

i hope you got my point now

search the forums for 'remote scripting' or something like that.. there have been MANY posts about how to control cpanel from scripts, which it seems is what you want to do.

you want to effectively program or macro functions you manually do in WHM, this is documented... also search for 'cpanel api' that'll get you most of what you need

[fusioncroc]

Why not edit the crontab directly? With crontab -e username

[Spiral]

Many people forget that PHP is also a shell scripting language (CLI) and
you can often make the script directly executable (chmod 755 or 700) and
put in a shebang (#!) to the PHP CLI interpreter.

#!/usr/bin/php
<?php
   // whatever code
?>

More information about PHP command line capabilities is at:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.commandline.php

If you are using PHP's powerful shell scripting capability then you can
add the PHP script directly to any cronjob just by specifying the PHP
script file name alone as the script you want to run along with
whatever command line parameters you want to pass to it.

In contrast ...

For a web based PHP script that you want to run by cronjob, you will
need to prefix the script filename in the cronjob by "php " which basically
will run it somewhat similiar to the CLI spoken of earlier.

(OR)

To have a cronjob call the script directly from the web site as though
it were being called from a web site visitor, you would need to instead
make the script name a full web address and prefix it with "lynx "
in the cronjob.

As you can see, lots of ways to call PHP scripts from cronjobs. I personally
prefer to shebang the scripts and run them as CLI shell scripts directly
instead of calling them from the web server. This keeps things more
internal, uses less resources, and doesn't tie up any network sockets
otherwise routing your script through your web server.