Run script at same time automatically

[SlowMove]

This may be a stupid question, but is there some way to have a PHP script on a server run automatically at the same time every day?

[ppg]

the usual way would be with a cron job set up on your server - what OS are you using?

[SlowMove]

>>what OS are you using?

Linux at iPowerWeb

[ppg]

Well, given Linux I would do it with a cron job but I'm more used to in-house web servers.

I had a look around their site, sadly it doesn't look good for you. From their help pages:

"If you are need to schedule scripts to run at specific times as in creating server side cron jobs, your iPowerWeb account will not be able to support this feature."

They need to work on their grammar too!

I don't know another way of doing this, perhaps someone else can pitch in?

[SlowMove]

Thanks for checking it out.
I had one other idea. Are there any sites(not necessarily Web hosts) that could be used to hit my site at a scheduled time every day? Any kind of site would do just so it would visit www.site.com/script.php

[vincevincevince]

what OS do you use at home?

if ("windows")
- make a local .htm file with an <iframe src= to your script
- then use "task scheduler" (control panel) to make that launch daily

if ("*nix")
- run your own cron job in pretty much the same way :-)