Another Way?

Hey i have a cronjob set to run every 24 hours and to use wget to run a php script which sends emails out to users about a certain topic they have selected. This all works fine but in my root folder (above public_html) it stores a copy of the php file wget runs and i want to know is there a way of not making it download to the root folder?

Forgot to say my command is

WGET /public_html/email.php

i presume it works because i get an email about my user every day.

Why use wget at all? Why don't you just run the script via the php command line:

php -f /public_html/email.php

ok thanks.

The problem with calling PHP directly (above) is that in many cases you only have the module installed, not the executable

I _always_ use cURL - the method below works flawlessly

Most servers have cURL installed (if not go get it from http://www.haxx.se)

cURL is a command-line based tool similar to wget but with many more options and facilities

Then add into your crontab something along the lines of

/usr/bin/curl http://www.myserver.dom/somecode.php

It's a good idea to have the line

MAILTO=''

somewhere above this in your cron or root will end up getting an email of the HTML