php shell script questions

[bill]

Hal Burgiss wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 7:15 AM, bill<william at techservsys.com> wrote:
>   
>> I need to run a php script from cron.
>> I will be developing it from the console using the cli.
>>
>> for debugging use, do echo statements echo to the console or do I need to
>> explicitly open the console for output ?
>>     
>
> 'echo' echoes to STDOUT. You don't need to do anything special.
>
>   
>> when I finish the testing and want to start it from cron, would I use
>>  php {scripname.php}  as the cron command, or is there a shebang that I can
>> put at the head of the script and then just cron the scriptname ?
>>     
>
> Either way works. !#/usr/bin/php (for Ubuntu location. In the latter
> case, the script of course has to be set executable. The former not.
>
> Its easy enough to do a simple test, no?
>
>   
I am appreciative and properly chastised, but in my defense I will have 
to say that I have exactly 1 month of experience with Ubuntu and none 
with PHP cli.

bill

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Bill Drescher
william {at} TechServSys {dot} com

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