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Hi guys,

I need to run a Cron module for PHP, does anyone know how to install it into XAMPP for Windows and where I can download the module from,

Thanks ppl,

Bobby

I need to run a Cron module for PHP

What's that, a "Cron module"?

I don´t know if there is such a thing, but windows have "task scheduler" it´s the same as adding a cron job.
You can find task scheduler in your windows control panel.

Maller wrote:I don´t know if there is such a thing, but windows have "task scheduler" it´s the same as adding a cron job.
You can find task scheduler in your windows control panel.

Yeah Im running Windows 2003 Server, So if I wanted to add a spider script for a search engine, I would just schedule the system using the "Sheduled task" app to run the php script???

Would that be correct?

Thanks guys

I never used the task scheduler to execute a php file, but yeah I guess you could just make a batch file with the information you wanted, and add that to the tast scheduler.
the batch would probly look something like this

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@c:\xampp\php\php.exe -f script.php


Not sure if you need the -f argument but look it up.

This is just how i would do it, there could be a better or easyer way...!

there is a cron for windows, I think its called wincron