Using crontab to execute script every minute and another every 24 hours

Question

I need a crontab syntax which should execute a specific PHP script /var/www/html/a.php every minute. The execution on every minute must start at 00:00. The other task which must execute a script at 00:00 /var/www/html/reset.php (once every 24 hours).

Answer 1

every minute:

* * * * * /path/to/php /var/www/html/a.php

every 24hours (every midnight):

0 0 * * * /path/to/php /var/www/html/reset.php

See this reference for how crontab works: http://adminschoice.com/crontab-quick-reference, and this handy tool to build cron jobx: http://www.htmlbasix.com/crontab.shtml