windows - running php scripts locally though task manager

Question

I'm looking for some advice.

Rignt now i've got a bunch of php scripts that i've scheduled through cron. They run on my local machine doing stuff like pulling stuff out of a mysql db and sending automated emails. To run them I just have something like this in crontab: 0 7 * * 1 /usr/bin/php /phpscripts/script.php

I need to migrate all of those scripts to a Windows machine. I'm planning to use the Windows Task Scheduler to run the scripts, but how can I run the actual php scripts locally? From what I understand you need something like xampp to run the apache server? I guess what I need is a Windows equivalent of /usr/bin/php in crontab.

Answer 1

Set up your task to run when you want it (times and all that)

and pop this into the command:

C:Pathophp.exe -f "C:Pathofile.php"

Edit: you can also set a second php.ini to be run used when the CLI is used to run a file, which has no constraints on max execution time and the like. Very handy difference and better suited to running (potentially) long execution scripts.

You can do this by creating a php-cgi.ini file in your PHP folder where your php.ini file resides. This will be used automatically when a PHP file is executed from the CLI (this is how scheduled tasks are run).

Also note that Windows Scheduler will simply end on an error that causes your script to fall over, so running some extra logging might be a good idea in case your scripts exit early.