Running "cron" job on Windows server

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What is the Windows version of cron?

Hi everyone,

I'm having a script.php on IIS server and I want to call that script automatically every x minutes. The problem is that I need to pass arguments to the script like I would do in the browser (script.php?task=aaa). it seems that scheduled task ignores argument ?task=aaa...

How can I run this script passing it some "GET" arguments?

Thanks, L

in windows a cron job is called a scheduled task, you can find it in the control panel. — Drewdin, May 27 '11 at 19:35
It's definitely a different question because I read that answer and few more before posting and I didn't find the answer about passing the arguments. As always the only thing I can say is: oh, well — luigi7up, May 30 '11 at 07:56

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered May 27 '11 at 16:59

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I have twice cron jobs like these on my windows 2003 server. I program a schelude task of iexplorer with the url that I can work.

For example:

"C:\ProgramFiles\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" http://mydomain.com/admin/index.php?action=central_alertas.php&act=1

answered May 27 '11 at 16:59

Fran Hurtado

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what if he's not running an httpd? – WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot May 27 '11 at 17:03
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It's a fair suggestion if the person is scripting in php. – U62 May 27 '11 at 17:29
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I'm just curious: How is IE supposed to exit after running the script? Or should they have another task that closes it too? – mavrosxristoforos Aug 30 '13 at 04:45
Hi mavrosxristoforos! Yes you could schedule another task like "taskkill /F /IM iexplore.exe /T". – Fran Hurtado Sep 25 '13 at 09:33

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered May 27 '11 at 17:07

You can pass parameters into the file by invoking it like so:

C:\PHP5\php.exe -f "C:\PHP Scripts\script.php" -- -arg1 -arg2 -arg3

and then you can parse argv with this function:

function arguments($args ) {
    $ret = array(
        'exec'      => '',
        'options'   => array(),
        'flags'     => array(),
        'arguments' => array(),
    );

    $ret['exec'] = array_shift( $args );

    while (($arg = array_shift($args)) != NULL) {
        // Is it a option? (prefixed with --)
        if ( substr($arg, 0, 2) === '--' ) {
            $option = substr($arg, 2);

            // is it the syntax '--option=argument'?
            if (strpos($option,'=') !== FALSE)
                array_push( $ret['options'], explode('=', $option, 2) );
            else
                array_push( $ret['options'], $option );

            continue;
        }

        // Is it a flag or a serial of flags? (prefixed with -)
        if ( substr( $arg, 0, 1 ) === '-' ) {
            for ($i = 1; isset($arg[$i]) ; $i++)
                $ret['flags'][] = $arg[$i];

            continue;
        }

        // finally, it is not option, nor flag
        $ret['arguments'][] = $arg;
        continue;
    }
    return $ret;
}//function arguments

Source: http://php.net/manual/en/features.commandline.php

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered May 27 '11 at 16:58

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I would suggest downloading cURL for Windows, as it can make the page request to your server for you. You can then use the Windows Task Scheduler to execute curl script.php?task=aaa.

answered May 27 '11 at 16:58

Michael Mior

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