Topic: Can I create a cronjob that executes external PHP script?

[weblance]

Is ti possible to create a cronjob on the SME that executes an external PHP script once every hour? If yes, how?

/Carl

[Stefano]

please, define "external"

php has a cli too

[weblance]

please, define "external"

php has a cli too

External: http://www.remotedomain.com/script.php

[Stefano]

a script that use wget or curl in cron.d or crontab should do what you need..

do you expect to send parameters? do you need to get any result?

[weblance]

Sorry for the late reply.

I do not need to send any parameter and i don't get a result. I only need to run a script on a remote server. Is there a timeout? What I mean is that the remote script can take several minutes to excute.

[Stefano]

Sorry for the late reply.

I do not need to send any parameter and i don't get a result. I only need to run a script on a remote server. Is there a timeout? What I mean is that the remote script can take several minutes to excute.

wget is your friend
man wget for more details

[weblance]

Thank you very much!

I'll check wget out. What about execution time, is there a limit? The script can take several minutes to complete...

[Stefano]

I'll check wget out. What about execution time, is there a limit? The script can take several minutes to complete...

read the man page, you'll find the answer

[CharlieBrady]

The script can take several minutes to complete...

Most web browsers and most web servers won't allow it to complete if it takes that long.

[Jean-Philippe Pialasse]

the problem with timeout can be avoid on the webserver side using the comand set time limit in the loop (i guess there is some loop in it
each time it will set the timeout it will be reseted to 0 ... set a timeout value for one pass in the loop ( 10 seconds per pass should be enough)

http://php.net/manual/en/function.set-time-limit.php

usually the timeout is 30 second to complete all the script