Amazon S3 setup problem

[df305]

I followed the instructions to set up Amazon S3 (test completes successfully), but I receive an error message from cron daemon:

public_html/members/cron_amazon.php: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `('
public_html/members/cron_amazon.php: line 1: `<?include("../admin/function/db.php");?>'

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
DF

[admin]

If you see <? ?> code in the errors it means that php code was not executed.

[df305]

I'm not sure I understand what that means. Have to admit I'm not a world champion in PHP
Why would the PHP not be executed? Any suggestions what I can do to solve the problem?
THANKS!

[admin]

Does php cron understand short tags <? ?>
or it requires <?php ?>

[df305]

The script runs fine when I execute it from the browser, but not with a cron job. I tried <?php ?>, same problem. Of course I could run it manually after each upload, but an automatic way would be much better.

Another strange thing is that the black bars that I got rid of with Lucy's trick (thank you!)

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var s".$id_parent." = new SWFObject(\"".site_root."/images/mediaplayer.swf\",\"single\",\"".$site_ffmpeg_width."\",\"".$site_ffmpeg_height+20

now appear again after the file moves to Amazon! Is there a command in the Amazon script that re-arranges the size of the clip again? Do I have to apply the +20 somewhere again?

Thanks for any help, I'm a bit lost with these PHP issues!
DF

[admin]

What command to use to run a cron script?

I advice the next one:

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/usr/bin/lynx -source http://yourdomain.com/members/cron_amazon.php

[df305]

Thanks for the reply. I followed your advice and go this error message:

<b>Strict Standards</b>: date() [<a href='function.date'>function.date</a>]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. Please use the date.timezone setting, the TZ environment variable or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Chicago' for 'CDT/-5.0/DST' instead in <b>/home/305/public_html/members/cron_amazon.php</b> on line <b>234</b><br />

What can I do about this?
Thanks, DF

[Spectral]

Hi df305,

I had the same Problem and found a good workaround which makes the whole thing work, although it is not a real solution.
Enter in the CRON command line this:

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wget http://yourdomain.com/members/cron_amazon.php >/dev/null 2>&1

This makes it a HTTP request and it will work just as you would kick it with the Browser.
Check your root directory every now and then, it might be receiving some http fake files you have to delete which are resulting from the requests.

I hope this helps and Anton finds a real solution soon