<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#006600"> Hal Burgiss wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:962301c30907140528u558b7587q94e13ec507025b43@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 7:15 AM, bill<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:william@techservsys.com"><william@techservsys.com></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">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 ? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> 'echo' echoes to STDOUT. You don't need to do anything special. </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">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 ? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> 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? </pre> </blockquote> 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 <pre class="moz-signature" cols="65">-- Bill Drescher william {at} TechServSys {dot} com</pre> </body> </html>