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Old 02-28-2008, 07:13 AM
Dikkie Dik
 
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Default Re: Updating record remotely from a script?

Burma Jones wrote:
> I have a MySQL database on my ISP's Linux server. Can anyone tell me if
> it would be possible to update a specific record remotely without any
> user interaction? In other words, from a Windows script or batch file
> do the update without any interaction from myself. I was thinking of
> passing the update variables in a URL to a PHP script on the server, but
> that would open a browser window on the client which I don't want to
> do. Perhaps some other protocol or ODBC or something? Thanks!

I think you can do that with "scheduled tasks" in Windows or CRON on
Linux. You can probably run the script minimized.

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