Cron Jobs - why doesn't this work
 

I wrote a simple PHP script and set in CPanel Cron Jobs to run it every midnight. Here is the source (gal_update.php):

<?
copy("gal_today.html","gal_yesterday.html");

$fp = 'fopen("gal_today.html", "w")';

fputs($fp,"<TABLE width=650 bgcolor=Black align=center cellspacing=1 cellpadding=3><TR bgcolor=Navy><TD>\n");
fputs($fp," <TABLE width=100%>\n");
fputs($fp," <TR bgcolor=Navy align=left>\n");
fputs($fp," <TD width=33%>\n");
fputs($fp," <TABLE cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 border=0>\n");
for ($i = 1; $i < 34; $i++)
{
fputs($fp,gen_link($i));
fputs($fp,"\n");
}
fputs($fp," </TABLE>\n");
fputs($fp," </TD>\n");
fputs($fp," <TD width=33%>\n");
fputs($fp," <TABLE cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 border=0>\n");
for ($i = 1; $i < 34; $i++)
{
fputs($fp,gen_link($i));
fputs($fp,"\n");
}
fputs($fp," </TABLE>\n");
fputs($fp," </TD>\n");
fputs($fp," <TD width=33%>\n");
fputs($fp," <TABLE cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 border=0>\n");
for ($i = 1; $i < 34; $i++)
{
fputs($fp,gen_link($i));
fputs($fp,"\n");
}
fputs($fp," </TABLE>\n");
fputs($fp," </TD>\n");
fputs($fp," </TR>\n");
fputs($fp," </TD></TR></TABLE>\n");
fputs($fp,"</TABLE><BR>\n");

fclose;

function gen_link ($i)
{
require '/home/phrona/public_html/galadmin/mysql.php';
mysql_connect ($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpass) or die ('Error: ' . mysql_error());
mysql_select_db ($dbname);

$result = mysql_query("SELECT sponsorid FROM galleries ORDER BY sponsorid DESC LIMIT 1") or die ('Error: ' . mysql_error());
$log = mysql_fetch_array($result);
$sponsorid = rand(1,$log[sponsorid]);

$result = mysql_query("SELECT galleryno FROM galleries WHERE sponsorid='$sponsorid' ORDER BY galleryno DESC LIMIT 1") or die ('Error: ' . mysql_error());
$log = mysql_fetch_array($result);
$galleryno = rand(1,$log[galleryno]);

$result = mysql_query("SELECT description,content_count,url,sponsor FROM galleries WHERE sponsorid='$sponsorid' AND galleryno='$galleryno' LIMIT 1") or die ('Error: ' . mysql_error());
$log = mysql_fetch_array($result);

$description = $log[description];
$content_count = $log[content_count];
$url = $log[url];
$sponsor = $log[sponsor];

$url = urlencode($url);

if (($i/5) hahahaha (intval($i/5)))
{
$content_count = rand(50,99);
$url = "cgi-bin/ucj/c.cgi?link=gal__skim";
$link = "<TR><TD align=right><B>$content_count LIN</B>&nbsp;</TD><TD><A name=free_teen_porn href=$url target=_blank>$description</A></TD></TR>";
}
else
{
$url = "cgi-bin/ucj/c.cgi?url=$url&p=80&link=gal_$sponsor";
$link = "<TR><TD align=right><B>$content_count</B>&nbsp;</TD><TD><A name=free_teen_porn href=$url target=_blank>$description</A></TD></TR>";
}


return $link;
}
?>

Hosting support done its best, but nothing was solved. When I run this script by hand, it works without any problems, but when I try to run it using cronjobs, I receive this error (to my e-mail):

/home/phrona/public_html/gal_update.php: line 1: ?: No such file or directory
/home/phrona/public_html/gal_update.php: line 2: syntax error near unexpected token `'gal_today.html','gal_yesterday.html''
/home/phrona/public_html/gal_update.php: line 2: ` copy('gal_today.html','gal_yesterday.html'); ?>'

Replacing gal_today.html and gal_yesterday.html with absolute paths doesn't work - same error.

Anyone can help? Please answer here and if you think we can discuss it (you need more info etc.), let here your ICQ. Thank you all very much.