Question for web developers about automating some scripts ...

[purbeast0]

Sorry I don't really know the exact words for this.

I want to basically run it so that some script on my webserver will check an RSS file and parse it, and then add the information to the database. So if there is a new entry in the RSS file, it'll add it to the database.

I want to just know how I can automate something like this to happen say, every 15 minutes or every 30 minutes or so. Is this something that's even feasable? Is this something I can write in PHP or am I going to have to run some kind of Perl script?

Again I just don't really know where to start with something that will automatically run every interval that I give it. Thanks.

 

[imported_Rat]

Cron. Wrong forum. And I can do it for a price.

 

[Hyperblaze]

php and cron. easily done.

 

[purbeast0]

Originally posted by: Hyperblaze
php and cron. easily done.

Aaah cron ... I remember seeing that in some of the CPanels on websites. Is cron something that is already installed on web servers typically, or is it something that I need to manually install?

and is there a term I could search google for that would give more information on this? i don't even know what to really begin with. i'll search on cron now though.

 

[George P Burdell]

YGPM

 

[FoBoT]

you can do it with almost any scripting language
can be done on nix or windows servers

 

[purbeast0]

ok thanks guys I got it with the cron thing on my control panel since I don't have direct shell access.