That sounds like it should work, but we are leaving out the specifics. Why don't you try this. Write a cron job that runs one of these scripts you speak of. Have it write the output to some .html file that a user will view. Set the cron job for every minute or 5 minutes until you get it working correctly, then set it to run ever a hour or two. If you have problems with this, then ask us specific questions about that in a new thread.

Then, once you get all of that working ... you can look into Template Toolkit should you want to "upgrade" your system. ;) Cheers and good luck!

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