"Poul L. Christiansen" wrote:
> > I was thinking of writing up a PHP script and put into crontab, which is
> > somehow easier than a shell script, but PHP is an apache module, so I
> > cannot execute PHP under crontab (it has to be executed in a browser
> > right?). I guess a shell script is necessary. So, is it possible to
> > call 'psql' and returning its query result and I can use sendmail to
> > email the result? Any other idea?
PHP does not have a scheduling facility? AOLserver (the web/application
server that powers AOL) has had such facility (and many many others for
db-backed websites) since 1995. ns_schedule_proc.
http://www.aolserver.com
-Roberto
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