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. > >> > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > > > -- > Like Music? > http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------' -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
