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Good day People,
I hope you all doing well. Please kindly help me, I am trying to perform or run a cron job for my PHP code. I need this task to run at the background whereby it executes the PHP Script for sending an email. Below is the screenshot of where i stored the .bat and .vbs files, screenshot of the code in the script.bat and shellscript.vbs files (Attachements)
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Your scripts aren't attached (maybe removed for security reasons)... so my answer may lead in a different direction.
Why aren't you just doing something like this in your batch file?
php.exe C:\checkContracts\myfile.php
And trigger that script via task scheduler?
Thank you, I have just tried that and tried to run the task. The emails are still not delivered to the target email.
Below is the code in the .bat file:
php.exe "C:\xampp\htdocs\system\admin\checkContracts.php"
This is the screenshot for the trigger settings.
But you normally can send emails from your xampp environment?
So sending an email from your PHP-website works without this task?
Yes, I need to make this one to run at the background and act as a reminder through the email after a certain time. When I run the PHP file from the browser, the email get delivered. But, with the cron job, its does not get delivered.
Did you try to run your script manually on the command line?
Open a cmd and execute it manually, maybe enter some more debugging code into your script (if not already existing)
No, I haven't tried that. Please can I have the CMD command to manually run the script.
I would suggest it is the same as you use in the task?
php.exe "C:\xampp\htdocs\system\admin\checkContracts.php"
Or if need to pass parameters to that script, you might find this helpful
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/974356/run-php-script-from-command-line-with-variable
Now, I have tried the following commands below and ran the task from the Task Scheduler:
cd..
cd..
cd xampp
cd htdocs
cd system
cd admin
php checkContracts.php
And the email gets delivered into the target email.
Thank you very much for your feedback.
PS: You can shorten the "cd"s into one line ;-) =>
cd \xampp\htdocs\system\admin