Posts Tagged PHP

Install php scripts as cron in Windows

Posted by Imran in Miscellaneous, PHP, Windows on September 8, 2010

Linux has it’s very unique and beautiful feature “cron” that allows us to execute a program at a predefined schedule. For LAMP developers cron is a very common feature that we use very frequently. But many time lots of developers who recently have hosted their php code in Windows servers, face difficulty setting up their [...]

cron, PHP, task scheduler, windows scheduler

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Access files in password protected directory using curl

Posted by Imran in PHP on April 20, 2009

I had to get a page that is in a password protected directory. First I used php file_get_contents() which is always my first solution for accessing remote pages. But many web servers disable allow_url_fopen in php config. So curl is the ultimate solution. Curl has an option called CURLOPT_USERPWD that allows to add the user [...]

access-remote-file, curl, password-protected, PHP

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