On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 17:26, Richard Lynch wrote:
> Oh yeah, you can maintain progressive status on multiple "tasks" in
> all the cron jobs/dbs, and then make pretty graphs for the user to
> look at as they check back in to see how far along things are.
> 
> I do that a lot -- A few minutes of coding for eye candy for the suits
> does wonders sometimes...

Ajaxify the updates so they don't need to reload the page. Suits LOVE to
see that something is happening without them needing to do anything :)

Cheers,
Rob.


> Plus, it provides and easy way for you to make sure that the cron jobs
> are actually running and doing something.
> 
> On Tue, July 11, 2006 10:06 am, John Gunther wrote:
> > Great approach! Slicker'n snot. I added one enhancement: The shell
> > script writss progress info to the database which the trigger page
> > displays on entry.
> >
> >
> >
> > Richard Lynch wrote:
> >> I would recommend, however, that you re-structure things slightly so
> >> that the Architecture is more like this:
> >>
> >> User visits web page.
> >> Page generates a database record of what needs to be done.
> >> Page finished.
> >>
> >>
> >> CRON JOB:
> >> Look in task list of what needs doing, and do some of them.
> >> Make sure only one job is done at a time, or whatever race
> >> conditions
> >> are handled here.
> >>
> >> I've done projects both ways, and always end up frustrated with the
> >> "PHP attempts to background a process" and the "Task List + Cron"
> >> always works out far far better.
> >>
> >
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