Question

Is it possible to setup a cron job from within a PHP script on a LAMP server to run another PHP script? I’m a newb with cron jobs but I do know php quite well. Do I have to access the shell from PHP to set up the cron job? How would I code that if, for example, I want to execute execute.php automatically in 5 minutes after it is called from call.php?

Edit: Just to be clear, I only want to run execute.php once 5 minutes after it is called, and not have it repeat daily or anything like that. So, after it is executed by the cron job, the cron job should be discarded.

Answer 1

Use sleep at the beginning of execute.php

sleep(5*60);
//Rest of the code

It should by called like this:

require_once("execute.php");

However, call.php will not send any response for 5 minutes