Cron Jobs calling a php script with needed variables

Question

I am wondering if I can use a command in a cron job like so:

/usr/bin/php -q /home/**/public_html/scores.php?date=12/05/2009

I haven't been able to find anything that says I can or can't so I figured I would ask. I thoughts are that I can't but hopefully someone can tell me for sure.

If that is the case is there a way for me to include a variable in a cron job calling a php script?

Thanks Nick

Answer 1

Nick, take a gander at http://php.net/manual/en/features.commandline.php.

What you want to do is pass arguments in in the form of php -f scores.php '12/05/2009'. At that point, you'll just look at the $_SERVER['argv'] to get the value.

Answer 2

You can setup a cronjob to fetch it from your server:

wget -q -O /dev/null "http://yourdomain.com/scores.php?date=12%2F05%2F2009"