How can I do the following things with PHP?

Anon

Create a file, with whatever I want on how many lines I want. And set permissions (if needed) on a Unix server.
Have the script do something every x amount of time.
Have something happen each time the value of something goes up a certain value.

I did searrch, and that helped out a lot, but I couldn't find a good answer for these questions.

Thanks,
John

Anon

Oh, and to stop any confusion, I need the file to be created and given permissions by the script. (I'd sure hope I could make a file "aw by mysewf" lol...)

Anon

I'm assuming you are running PHP on a Unix system, not Windows, which introduces problems I'm not interested in solving.

Create a file, with whatever I want on how many lines I want.

Answer: Use the file functions in the manual. However,

1a. And set permissions (if needed) on a Unix server.

Answer: That's the harder part. The DIRECTORY has to be writable by the Web server process, so you will either have to be superuser and set up group and user IDs appropriately, or do it the insecure-but-works way: "chmod a+rwx ." while in the directory.

Now your Web server/PHP process can create and modify its own files.

Have the script do something every x amount of time.

Answer: If by "x amount of time" you mean run a script periodically, read up on the chron utility

Have something happen each time the value of something goes up a certain value.

Answer: Could you give an example? That's too vague to anwer.

Anon

Okay, thanks. What I meant by that was that say you have a counter or something, and you want it to e-mail you everytime your hit count goes up a certain value.

Something like it e-mails you on 2000 hits, 4000, 6000, etc.

Anon

just use the if function
eg

if ( $counter_value == 2000 || $counter_value == 4000 || $counter_value == 6000 ) {

my_email_function($counter_value);

}

Anon

But I want it to go forever, having to do that is wanted to avoid. And also, I want to just be able to put it like an increment value, and it will do the rest.

I was thinking about having a text file , and doing something like:

if($text_file[0] == $incriment_value){
$text_file[0] = $text_file[0] + $incriment_value
}

would that work?