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But if the user closes his browser, the script would no longer run I think.<BR><BR>This is for a stock trading game on PHP/mysql. The streaming stocks I'm getting are about 15-20 min old.

To run this script you will need to make sure the repository is somewhere the web browser can see it and then point the browser to the repsoitory's URL with appended with tools\update-test.php.

Basically, I have a php script that generates a web page, and I would like to send its output to a file (say, index.html).The problem is that php only runs as user nobody, and I can't have chmod ...