whats the difference?

Homerun31

Hey,

I am a pretty good PHP programmer and I wanted to create a script that ran every few minutes and my host doenst support cron jobs, but they said it would be able to do a similar job using cgi scripts. whats the difference between cgi and php? Can cgi run on its own with out someone actually going to that page?

infidel

: Hey,
:
: I am a pretty good PHP programmer and I wanted to create a script that ran every few minutes and my host doenst support cron jobs, but they said it would be able to do a similar job using cgi scripts. whats the difference between cgi and php? Can cgi run on its own with out someone actually going to that page?

As far as I know, a CGI program is any executable that gets called when you request it's URI. The output of that executable is what gets returned to the requestor.

PHP, of which I am not familiar, seems to be mostly for dynamically creating HTML. Whether or not it can call other executables I don't know.

Perhaps your host meant that you can write an exectuable script/program and have it installed as a CGI app, then you could have a program on your own machine request that URI every few minutes, causing the executable to run.


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