Comments on: Running PHP cron jobs – regular scheduled tasks in PHP

By: atasözleri

atasözleri — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 08:29:27 +0000

Thank you but i dont understand this method.

I am using this :

exec( ‘php /home/username/routine_task.php > /home/username/routine_task.log &’ );

By: adbox

adbox — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:23:44 +0000

I use an external cron management service (free) http://www.cronwatch.com

By: Sanuj

Sanuj — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:36:39 +0000

Hello!

My php file is located at /var/www/html/ddic/ad/a_index.php and php.ini is at /etc/php.ini

i have kept this line at /etc/crontabl and created a ddic file in cron.daily to execute

30 2 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily

and ddic file as

#!/bin/sh
30 2 * * * * /usr/bin/php /var/www/html/ddic/ad/a_index.php

Will This execute the php file (a_index.php) daily at 2:30 AM.

Please suggest me.

By: gaditano

gaditano — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 01:48:45 +0000

Hello,

I’m using the cron but I have a question.
If a run the script from the cron, I’m receiving the message:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 16777216 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 45 bytes) in /home/jgodino/public_html/sginfra.com.ar/sginfra_system_files/plugins/dompdf/include/frame.cls.php on line 358

If I run the same scrip from the browser, the program run ok.
This run ok, because the script is reading the php.ini with 64MB.

Is the cron using another php.ini?

Thanks

Gaditano

By: pauluZ

pauluZ — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:13:22 +0000

Don’t forget to add a parametr -c with the path to php.ini file in the first line inside the php script. Why?
Sometimes the conf file for php isn’t loaded and then you have to point to it:
`#!/usr/bin/php -q -c /etc/php.ini’

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 16 May 2008 15:16:21 +0000

You can also add ‘#!/usr/bin/php -q’ as the first line inside the php script.
Chmod the php file as executable, then it will be executable like any other script.

0 0 * * * /usr/bin/php /home/username/myscript.php

turns into:

0 0 * * * /home/username/myscript.php