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Nick
Nick

Reputation: 9373

Open URL via cmd without opening a browser

I wanted to use my local server which is running Windows 7 to take advantage of the task scheduler to setup some cron jobs for some of my php files.

I can do this currently by: start http://theurl

Which opens in my default browser. However I was hoping to accomplish this without physically opening a browser so when I come back to my computer after a few days I don't have millions of Chrome windows open.

How can I load a URL in Task scheduler without opening a browser client via cmd?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 13497

Answers (3)

Nick
Nick

Reputation: 9373

I was able to accomplish the cron job by using a program called wget. I setup task scheduler to run the wget.exe at my specified time with these arguments:

   wget -q -O - http://theurl.com > tmp.txt

This would load the website and store it to a temporary text file which is overwritten next time it is used.

Upvotes: 4

PeeHaa
PeeHaa

Reputation: 72682

If you just want to run some php files you don't need a browser. You can just run it from the commandline:

php -f /path/to/php/file.php

However if you really need to access a page you can do several things like: file_get_contents() or making a cURL request from PHP.

Upvotes: 3

nickb
nickb

Reputation: 59709

You don't need cmd or shell access. If your host has the HTTP wrapper enabled, a call to file_get_contents() is all you need:

file_get_contents( 'http://theurl');

You can also use fopen() if you're not interested in the response from the server.

Upvotes: 1

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