run webpage every hour

[kabatak]

Hello, I have WinXP with an Apache server and PHP. I want to run a php script locally (ie: http://localhost/script.php ) every hour. How do I do this? Can I do this using Windows Scheduled Task? Thanks.

[themoose]

install CRON and do that.

[kabatak]

is there cron for windows xp?

[themoose]

hmm.. apparently not. sorry about that.

onething you could try, is import the time via php and do lots of if's.
(i've added the time)
ie

$time = date("G\\:i");
if ($time = "17:00")
{
//runs script
}
else
{
exit;
}
if ($time = "18:00")
{
//runs script
}
else
{
exit;
} 

and do that for every hour of the day. (stick it at the top of your script).

edit: oh, and you'll need to get it to refresh.

There's probably a much easier way to do it though, just the way i'd do it.

[kabatak]

I don't actuallly want to open my browser, I just want it to run silenty as if it was a cron job on linux.

[Tree]

Scheduled task should work.