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Automated PHP script execution?

I am currently designing a text based game just for fun. Every night at midnight I want all characters "energy" reset back to 10/10. So if they used it up the day before it will be back. I can easily write a PHP script to do that to the mySQL database, but the question is how do I execute a script like that every night at 12:00. My test server runs linux, is there a way to do it on linux?

Thanks for your help in advance.

Marf

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Run a cron job.

http://www.adminschoice.com/docs/crontab.htm

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"Hey, **** YOU!"

Or just check time every time they play, if it's past midnight refill energy and if it's not then leave it the way it is. They can't see their energy if they don't run the script

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somehow, cronjobs dont like me...I can never do them right =/

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Originally posted by Alekz
Or just check time every time they play, if it's past midnight refill energy and if it's not then leave it the way it is. They can't see their energy if they don't run the script

Inefficient on a popular site.

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ok then

0 0 * * * /path/to/php/cgi /path/to/php/file.php

would be the cron script

But now I think I might want the script to execute once every 30 minutes. How would I do that instead?

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30 0

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That would just make it do it at 12:30 midnight every night.

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