Do any one know if its possible to run a php under cron? I need to run a script that is written as php

Well one way is to compile PHP as a CGI binary instead of as an Apache module. this should work.

Another way is to use lynx to access the page via HTTP, you need to make sure you have all output from lynx turned off though.

How would I do either one of those suggestions?

Using lynx you could try something like this:

lynx -dump http://yourdomain.com/something.php

To turn off (discard) the output of lynx, you can try this:
lynx --dump http://www.yourserver.com/yourscript.php > /dev/null

Here's an article that has info on using PHP as a shell scripting language. It should answer your question:

http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/darrell20000319.php3

Thanks all I got it to work using wget domain.com/script.php

I had to go behind that script with a remove script.php because it places and output script in the same directory as the cron. But thanks for all your help.

wget would work fine too. If you want a tip, no need for you to remove the file each time you run the script. Simply tell wget to discard the output like this:

wget -O /dev/null http://domain.com/script.php

This would discard the output instead of saving it to a file...

Thanks I change the script

To compile PHP as a CGI binary, try something like the following:

./configure \
--with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql \
--enable-track-vars \
--enable-discard-path \
--prefix=/usr/local/php \
--disable-pear

make
make install

The PHP binary would then be located at /usr/local/php/bin/php. If you would like to make it run my simply typing php script.php at the prompt, cd into /bin and make a soft link. You can do this with:

ln -s /usr/local/php/bin/php php

Once you have done this, you should be able to run the scripts from a crontab with something like:

0 1 * * * php /root/admin/cpanel/process-analog-statistics.php

I set up PHP on our Linux server as both a CGI binary and Apache module by compiling two copies.

Best regards,
Frank Rietta

we tend to use curl. Works very well, without the risk of running php as a binary.

regards,

Simon

I've found this on phpbuilder.com:

TERM=xterm; export TERM; /usr/bin/lynx -source - "http://www.foo.com/script.php"

It works great for me!

Bye,
Ricky