Re: [Phpwiki-talk] cron jobs

[Jeff D. <da...@da...>]

>However there are needs arising like: a permanent archive might need
>periodic housekeeping, like deleting pages older than ten versions ago.
>This can be done with a cron script.


Here's my take on how this should be done (you've seen my philosophy
on this before when we introduced the zip-dump):

All these maintainance tasks should be done by normal CGI means.  Eg.

   admin.php?action=clean_archive&keep_versions=10

would perform what you suggest above.

Then, if you want to cronify it, you can do so on any computer.
Ie. on my home computer I can run:

 GET -Cuser:password http://where.ever/admin.php?action=clean_archive&...

I think using PHP as a standalone interpreter (other than for debugging
purposes) is a bad idea.

Some points:
  Cron is a unix-ism.
  Your method requires shell (and cron) access on the server.