Seeking alternatives for Crone Jobs

New Member Joined: Jun 24, 2005 Posts: 9

Hi
I have a site in PHP on IIS 6 and need some sort of scheduling

functionality for sending emails via php scripts, running scripts on

database etc.

I worked a bit with Crone Jobs for this however I was wondering if there

is something better then that. Site is developed in PHP / MySQL and

running on Windows 2003 with IIS 6.

Any help!

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 17088

I have never heard of Crone, but I see there is a product called Crone that is similar to Cron. Regardless, you could use AT with IIS I would think. Also, there is a script called Pseudo Cron and is available at [ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ] .

Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 6:01 am

Well, the "bad news" is that you are using IIS... ROTFL

The "good news" is that you can use the built in GUI scheduler that comes with Windows to call Internet Explorer and pass it the URL that will execute your script. The only issue is that it leaves the browser window open unless you write you code to pass back javascript which upon loading the page, it closes the IE window.

regards,
montego