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I'm trying to create PHP script that will update my website on some specific date. Can someone help me with this?

YakovL
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  • Do you know anything about cron? If you do not know, then I advise you to learn about it from google. And if you fail to configure cron on your server / hosting, do not forget to google "cron online". Well, and as an option, if you have some traffic and the script runs at least once a day, just compare the date. – nektobit Oct 20 '18 at 07:09

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PHP itself cannot execute itself at a specific time, that is instead handled by your server. You can configure your server to execute your scripts at any interval you like.

If you are using a linux based machine (most likely if you are using PHP), it is called a cronjob. You can access it by typing crontab -e on your command line and adding the line:

* * * * * /path/to/your/script.php

Those stars represent the interval, like so minute hour day-of-month month day-of-week

For example, to run it on the 20th of October at 9am, it would be 0 9 20 10 * /path/to/script

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