Hi guys, Im running php and apache and Id like to designate a php script to run once a day. How do I go about setting this up? Thanks -CProgrammer

There's no way to do this through just PHP and Apache that I know of (Doesn't mean there isn't a way of course). What OS are you running? There might be an OS-specific way to do this.

I'd also be interested in knowing if this is possible (under Windows preferably). I could write an app that would access a particular web page every so often, but if there's a better way I'd be glad to hear it...

Hey thanks for your reply.
Well im running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and if anyone knows of a built in feature here that would be great.
The only alternative I can think of is that I have a script run on every page request which checks against a date in a database and then performs the once a day routine if this hasnt been done yet. Offcourse this means I have a database access on every single request to the server which is just not pretty, not the end of the world, but there has to be a etter way.
What you said gave me the idea of making a program that always runs and once a day simply sends a request to the php script. This would work but its also ugly.

Look at cron, or a php simulated cron which is what you are describing.

Php scripts can be run from the command line and also directly from cron.