# Cron Jobs

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cron-jobs/28312>\
**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [August 12, 2003, 2:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cron-jobs/28312 "2003-08-12T14:43:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 12\
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**Author:** ![Maxtr0sity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maxtr0sity](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Maxtr0sity)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 2:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cron-jobs/28312/1 "2003-08-12T14:43:22Z")

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Hey, anyone use Cron jobs to do stuff? I’m not sure what exactly it can do and it can’t do. Any suggestions? Also, where can I get scripts?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 2:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cron-jobs/28312/2 "2003-08-12T14:53:25Z")

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WTF is a cron job?

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**Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 2:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cron-jobs/28312/3 "2003-08-12T14:56:53Z")

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Never heard of them? I have them since I own a domain, it’s in the cPanel Control Panel. It’s suppose to backup databasese automatically somehow, but I’m not too sure.

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**Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 3:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cron-jobs/28312/4 "2003-08-12T15:00:46Z")

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oh… That would be host specific. The only people that will know how to use that are people that have the same host as you.

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**Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 3:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cron-jobs/28312/5 "2003-08-12T15:14:27Z")

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A cron job is a script that runs every so often. For instance, you could have a script like this:

```php

<?php
$fileCon = fopen("daysUp.txt", "A+");
fputs($fileCon,"1");
fclose($fileCon);
?>

```

then you could run this script every day at midnight, and you would have a counter in a textfile of how many days your site had been up.

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**Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 3:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cron-jobs/28312/6 "2003-08-12T15:23:03Z")

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Do I need to put anything in Cron to show that script?

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**Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 3:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cron-jobs/28312/7 "2003-08-12T15:28:24Z")

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I’m sorry, I have no experience actually using cron jobs. I just happen to know what they are :-\

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**Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 3:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cron-jobs/28312/8 "2003-08-12T15:30:54Z")

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Nuts, I tried looking for it online…no one knows too much about them and scripting them.

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**Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 6:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cron-jobs/28312/9 "2003-08-12T18:16:07Z")

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Max if you don’t really know what they are why do you want to use them?

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**Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 6:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cron-jobs/28312/10 "2003-08-12T18:19:42Z")

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Yes, because I liked automated stuff, and my database does need to be backed up.

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**Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 6:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cron-jobs/28312/11 "2003-08-12T18:27:29Z")

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If you need your database backing up, you can use PHPMyAdmin, if your host supports it. There is a built in way of exporting the database to a .cvs file, I believe =)

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**Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 6:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cron-jobs/28312/12 "2003-08-12T18:30:09Z")

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I mean like automatically which I think Cron can do.