Execute a PHP script from another PHP script

Question

How would I make my server run a php script by triggering it manually using php  Basically I have a pretty big cronjob file that is ran every 2 hours  but I want to be able to trigger the file manually myself without having to wait for it to load  i want it to be done on the server s side    EDIT  I want to execute the file from a php file    Not command line

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you can use the backtick notation    php file php     You can also put this at the top of the php file to indicate the interpreter      usr bin php   Change it to where you put php  Then give execute permission on the file and you can call the file without specifying php      file php    If you want to capture the output of the script    output      file php   echo  output

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Possible and easiest one-line solution is to use   file get contents  YOUR REQUESTED FILE      Or equivavelt for example CURL

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The OP refined his question to how a php script is called from a script  The php statement  require  is good for dependancy as the script will stop if required script is not found      usr bin php  lt   require   relative path to someotherscript php       The above script runs as though executed from within this one      printf   Hello world  n       gt

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I think this is what you are looking for   lt  php include   Scripts Php connection php      The connection php script is executed inside the current file   gt    The script file can also be in a  txt format  it should still work  it does for me  e g    lt  php include   Scripts Php connection txt      The connection txt script is executed inside the current file   gt

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You can invoke a PHP script manually from the command line  hello php  lt  php  echo  hello world      gt   Command line  php hello php  Output  hello world    See the documentation  http   php net manual en features commandline php    EDIT OP edited the question to add a critical detail  the script is to be executed by another script   There are a couple of approaches  First and easiest  you could simply include the file  When you include a file  the code within is  executed   actually  interpreted   Any code that is not within a function or class body will be processed immediately  Take a look at the documentation for include  docs  and or require  docs   note  include once and require once are related  but different in an important way  Check out the documents to understand the difference  Your code would look like this    include  hello php        output  hello world        Second and slightly more complex is to use shell exec  docs   With shell exec  you will call the php binary and pass the desired script as the argument  Your code would look like this    output   shell exec  php hello php    echo   lt pre gt  output lt  pre gt       output hello world       Finally  and most complex  you could use the CURL library to call the file as though it were requested via a browser  Check out the CURL library documentation here  http   us2 php net manual en ref curl php   ch   curl init    curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT URL   http   www myDomain com hello php    curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT HEADER  0   curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT RETURNTRANSFER  true    output   curl exec  ch   curl close  ch   echo   lt pre gt  output lt  pre gt       output hello world       Documentation for functions used   Command line  http   php net manual en features commandline php include  http   us2 php net manual en function include php require  http   us2 php net manual en function require php shell exec  http   us2 php net manual en function shell-exec php curl init  http   us2 php net manual en function curl-init php curl setopt  http   us2 php net manual en function curl-setopt php curl exec  http   us2 php net manual en function curl-exec php curl close  http   us2 php net manual en function curl-close php

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I prefer to use  require once  phpfile php      lots of options out there for you  and a good way to keep things clean

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lt  php  output   file get contents  http   host path another php param value     echo  output    gt

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Try this   header  location  xyz php      thats all for redirecting to another php file

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Open ssh and execute the command manually   php  path to your file php

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If it is a linux box you would run something like   php  folder script php   On Windows  you would need to make sure your php exe file is part of your PATH  and do a similar approach to the file you want to run   php C  folder script php

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On the command line     gt  php yourfile php

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