Suggestion required (PHP running on shell command)

[mukesh]

Hi all,

Need you help..

1. Can we run a .php file from a coomand promt of unix.
so that i can use "crontab" command.
2. can we read a remote file such as
http://www.xyz.gov/dhspublic/display?theme=29

I am able to read a remote file as

http://www.xyz.gov/index.html

thanks in advance

Mukesh

[nucleuz]

1. Yes: as long as you have the CLI installed (To see if you do type: "[nucleuz:~] nucleuz% php -v" in a terminal)
2. YES, the same way as you do the other remote file

[firepages]

the `standard` method would be to cron lynx to run the script

[mukesh]

Hi Nucl and fire,
Thanks alot....yes the url part is solved.but i am still not get the running of a .php file from telnet.
Nuclez has given me the command but plz make it more clear..

suupose we have the file in /var/www/html/runonshell.php the how can i run this on linux using telnet.
Actully i have to execute the script on an given interval.

Thanks in adv
mukesh

[torrent]

Have you included:

#!/usr/local/php4/bin/php

at the top of your php file (or whatever the path to your PHP installation is)?

[nucleuz]

These should get you started:
http://www.zend.com/zend/spotlight/shellscriptingp1.php
http://www.devarticles.com/art/1/502
http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/jayesh20021111.php3

[mukesh]

hi all,
thanks alot for thge suggestions.
I am doing scheduling on server using crontab.
command: lynx http://www.fdgf.com/index.php
but its not executing the file.
Plz help me
mukesh

[Viral]

If you have cli php installed (did you check by typing "php -v" for your prompt as nucleuz suggested?) then you have two choices...

One, run it as an external file:
unix>php ./yourfile.php

or two, at the very top of your php file, add the line that torrent showed:
#/path/to/your/php

Then you can chmod it to executable (711) and:
unix>./yourfile.php

or add it to your cron:
0 9 * * * /path/to/yourfile.php would execute it at 9am everyday

Not sure how else we can help you other than what people have already shared here...

--Viral

[BDKR]

1. Yes: as long as you have the CLI installed (To see if you do type: "[nucleuz:~] nucleuz% php -v" in a terminal)
2. YES, the same way as you do the other remote file

Just to add to this, you can do this with both the CLI AND the CGI sapi installs. CLI makes a couple of things easier, but either way will still work. An example of one of the ways CLI is helpfull concerns getting data from user input (from the keyboard via STDIN). As an example, with the CGI version one needs to do something like this:

<?php
$ky=fopen('php://stdin', 'r');
?>

Where as with the CLI sapi, php://stdin is a constant (STDIN).

There is a section of the manual devoted to this. Check it out. It's good stuff. I do a ton of systems level stuff with PHP as my job is mostly DBA / Network / Cluster admin stuff. Who said PHP was just for web development?

Good luck :-)

Cheers,
BDKR