BadBlue integrates a complete, powerful scheduler that can capture web pages, run PHP scripts and execute Windows commands on a daily, weekly, monthly or yearly basis. Scheduling is controlled through the EXT.INI configuration file and is extremely easy to use.

For users familiar with the UNIX cron utility, BadBlue's scheduler works similarly. But it should be significantly easier to use and maintain and is designed for web operations with its ability to capture web pages and execute web scripts (in addition to its more conventional capability of running Windows applications and commands).

Scheduling a job can be as simple as writing a single sentence:

 [SCHED]

 job1=at=19:28 recurs=daily event="http://127.0.0.1/hi.php >c:\hi.txt"

This example schedules a daily job to execute each evening at 7:28pm (local military time = 19:28). It executes a local PHP script called 'hi.php' and captures its output to the file 'c:\hi.txt'. Easy enough?

Get all the details on scheduling.