PHP Question

Chris Roane posted this at 00:02 — 23rd January 2001.

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Hi,

I am creating a topsites page for one of my clients in PHP and MySQL.

How can I make the topsite list reset daily?

Thanks!

Chris Roane

Chad Simper posted this at 00:16 — 23rd January 2001.

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You would just need to write a php script that resets the database (deletes the site ranks or something) once a day... Call the script with cron each day, whenever you want.

Chris Roane posted this at 00:24 — 23rd January 2001.

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That is what I thought I would have to do, but I have no clue on how to do that. I've never tried to use cron with my host before.

Any help on this would be appreciated.

Chris Roane

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Rob Pengelly posted this at 00:37 — 23rd January 2001.

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Create a file called 'cront', and inside it put something like:

0 0 * * * lynx -dump http://www.url.com/to/reset_topsites.php

'
upload the file to your home directory, login to telnet and type
'crontab cront'

This would execute the script via lynx at midnight each night.

Hope that helps

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Chris Roane posted this at 00:42 — 23rd January 2001.

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Thanks!

Man, that is interesting.

Thanks for your help!

Chris Roane