Not sure what you mean about not being able to schedule PHP scripts to run. I do just that for several recurring tasks - PHP scritps I've written to do log crunching, and to generate all the static HTML at www.kissthisguy.com once a day. The PHP scripts are run via cron just like any other script would be. I'd far rather do things like this in PHP than in perl. It's a cleaner language (to me).