"We all know PHP is a great language for building Web applications with but we all also know there's a lot more to running a serious Website than just the user interface.
"There are back ups to be performed, log files to be analysed, data to be pruned and all those essential but mundane tasks that happen in the background. Typically, such routine administration tasks are prime targets for automation and, if you've spent any time with UNIX-based systems, you've probably run into the notion of shell scripts and cron..."
