PHP Cli - How to run a page periodically?

[imblack]

Hello,
I have to run this page: http://localhost/loop/cp/feeds?d=y&u=y periodically, because it fetches the content of some feeds(RSS) and then inserts into Database and then sends SMS texts to subscribed users.

when i run it with php-cli in bash like this: php feeds.php?u=y&d=y
I only get:
[4] 11719

but nothing happens, running it like this:
black@loopserver:/var/www/loop/cp$ php 'feeds.php?u=y&d=y'
Could not open input file: feeds.php?u=y&d=y

gives that ^^^

Can any one please tell me what to do? I think the problem is coming by passing get parameters, if i just run feeds.php everything goes fine, but I need to pass in those.

Any help would be appreciated.

[Untitled_No4]

You should run it as

php feeds.php -u y -d y

and then in your code you should use getopt:

$args = getopt("u:d:")
$u = $args['u']
$d = $args['d']

[imblack]

Ah, okay, but I also want to run it through browser sometimes, means i have to use both $_GET and $args and check which one has values in it?
no common way?

[Untitled_No4]

Not that I know of.

[imblack]

Well thanks it solved the problem

[imblack]

One last problem is that I want to use it from web and cli both.
But when i use this getopt() function the webbrowser doesnt let me view the page, instead downloads the php file. CLI is workign fine now, how to solve this? The code is given below:

/

/ If get is supplied use it
if ( isset($_GET['d']) )
    $dispatch = $_GET['d'];
if ( isset($_GET['u']) )
    $update = $_GET['u'];
    
// if no values provided in get use cli args
if ( $update != 'u' && $dispatch != 'u' )
{
    //$args = getopt("u:d:");

    if ( isset($args['u']) )
        $update = $args['u'];

    if ( isset($args['d']) )
        $dispatch = $args['d'];
}