Cron Jobs issue

[AsgarothBelem]

I dont know what im doing wrong but im getting this errors as mail

/home/asgaroth/public_html/crontest.php: line 1: ?php: No such file or directory
/home/asgaroth/public_html/crontest.php: line 3: syntax error near unexpected token `('
/home/asgaroth/public_html/crontest.php: line 3: ` $oConn = mysql_connect("localhost","XXXX","XXXX")or die("Connection to the server failed");'

the script im trying to run is:

php-cron /home/asgaroth/public_html/crontest.php

and it just contains:

<?php

$oConn = mysql_connect("localhost","XXXX","XXXX")or die("Connection to the server failed");
mysql_select_db("asgaroth_twvcs")or die("No such database exist ".$this->dbName);
mysql_query("INSERT INTO test VALUES (0);",$oConn) or die("There is error in the sql query: ".$sql);
?>



what should i do to fix that? can anyone help me plz?

 

[Christopher]

Moved to Programming Help

 

[marshian]

Try

php -q /home/asgaroth/public_html/crontest.php

 

[phpasks]

/usr/local/bin/php -q /home/phpasks/public_html/cron_email_sending.php

/usr/local/bin/php You can set here php install path.

then work your cronjob.