From Part 1:
“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…”