What do people think about making a cron job call a page by doing a lynx http://www.site.com/automatedtasks.php every hour?
-----Original Message----- From: Erik Price [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: February 16, 2002 3:02 PM To: Rodney Davis Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] scheduled tasks On Friday, February 15, 2002, at 03:03 PM, Rodney Davis wrote: > Is currently anyway of doing scheduled tasks with PHP (without using > crontab)? For example, using an email script to send out e-mail > reminders every Monday or something like that? One way to do it (stole this from my 'Beginning PHP' book [Wrox]): Store the current timestamp into a file. Read this file every time some commonly-used feature of your site is executed. Then, when X number of seconds has passed beyond the timestamp, execute some other code: $countfile = "./countfile.txt"; $fp = fopen($countfile, 'r+'); $oldtime = fread($fp); if ((time()) >= ($oldtime + 24 * 60 * 60 * 7)) { // a week has passed since the last time the file was written to // execute the code (mail or whatever) } rewind($fp); fwrite($fp, time()); fclose($fp); or something like that. NB this code is definitely untested, so it probably won't work, but the theory is there. Also, be sure to take into account the security issues of having a file writeable by your web server -- I'm assuming you already have experience with this. Erik ---- Erik Price Web Developer Temp Media Lab, H.H. Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
