Re: Re: [PHP] a script that queries database periodically

Jason's definitiely on the right track.

I'd add that if you don'tknow Perl, Python might be easier. Check
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=39069, starship.net might also
have a PostreSQL module.

Python also has a very easy to use SMTP module for mailing of reports.

There's nothing anti-Perl here, I just don't know that language and found
Python quite natural.

Miles Thompson

RE
Jason wrote:

> > I was thinking of writing up a PHP script and put into crontab, which is
> > somehow easier than a shell script, but PHP is an apache module, so I
> > cannot execute PHP under crontab (it has to be executed in a browser
> > right?).  I guess a shell script is necessary.  So, is it possible to
> > call 'psql' and returning its query result and I can use sendmail to
> > email the result? Any other idea?
>
> if you know perl, you should check out DBI.  Read all about it at
> www.cpan.org.  It's pretty similar to the php database interface.