You need a process running outside the bounds of the webserver that reads the database every so often, and then sleeps with a wakeup every so often, and a list of when things "expire". It updates the database, the webpage reflects the update.
You could of course do this via a wget driven by crontab, so that all the logic is on the webserver..... On Jan 4, 4:50 am, makka...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi list, > > I have a web app which is a kind of arbitration application. Users bid on some > products or projects and the one who gives the biggest price gets the > project. Every project has some bidding expiration time. What i need is how > can i handle the situation to change the status of the project on a specific > time? For example , i submit a project and it should expire after 2 hours. > > Some solutions i can think are : > - Cronjobs , which checks the db every minute , but that will be very > expensive i think > - Twisted , but if server gets restarted i may loose the track of the > deferreds > > Does anyone solved a problem like that before ? Any suggestions ... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
