Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi I have a website that is having problem with cron jobs...

I have a cron job set up to go to a page with this code...

<?
include('config.php');
if($_sys->bible_email_frequency == 'DAILY')
{
$u = new user();
$u->send_bible_email();
}
?>

If i send my browser to this page then the action occurs okay but if I set a cron job to go there I get no action at all. Some one said that this code is not shell compliant and it needs to be.

Can anyone correct it for me?

Thanks

A user cannot use the crontab command if one of the following is true:
* The cron.allow file and the cron.deny file do not exist (allows root user only).
* The cron.allow file exists but the user's login name is not listed in it.
* The cron.deny file exists and the user's login name is listed in it.

check man crontab.

I've never heard of using cron to visit web pages. Maybe it will work, but I would do whatever you are doing with a Bash shell script.

But since you already have it all setup as a PHP script, you could probably do it something like this. Here I'm assuming you want it to run at 1:15 AM every day. If you don't have access to the actual crontab, then just ignore the leading numbers and asterisks.

Code:

15 1 * * *  /usr/bin/php  /some/path/file.php