automated tasks

[Roost3r]

Hi, I wasnt sure whether to post this here or in teh mysql part. I need to be able to do some automated tasks against my mysql database, is there s function in php to do this? Any ideas on how i could do this would be greatly appreciated. TIA

[Spookster]

Well you won't use PHP as any PHP file has to be called on before it can run. What you are going to do is use a CRON job. This is a feature of the server.

This belongs in the other server side etc forum. You will also find some topics on CRON jobs in that forum.

Ill move you there.

[Feyd]

Don't you people search? :p

http://www.codingforums.com/ubb/Forum5/HTML/004755.html

[sir pannels]

unless ofcourse you are running a win2k server - in which case use scheled tasks (sp?)