If you have decided to go with XAMPP on your OSX machine, then you have made the right choice as it works excellent on the Mac and has almost no limitations. Because of the file structure was not the typical WAMP or server setup I was used to it was a bit tricky at first. In case anyone else had trouble here's a quick tutorial on how to get it rolling.
I recall the first time trying to setup Sphinx search on my Windows machine with Wamp it wasn't so obvious of how it was to be setup. Here's a guide in how to get it setup on you local machine. If you want to install Sphinx on Linux / Plesk there's an article for that too.
So you've created a PHP script that does something like clean your tables or compiles a report on some data. You want it to run it every 2 hours but you don't want to go to your computer every 2 hours. What should you do? Cron job using crontab is what you should do. Cron job is basically setting a timer on your server to run the script at a certain time that you please. Sounds easy enough, but how do you do it? Lets find out!
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