Deep trouble with infinite loop

[Anon]

I'm stuck in a really deep trouble.

My goal is to display web pages on screen depending of a file that change at a regular time, if there is a certain change in the values I have to display another page.

Is there a method with PHP to do some kind of infinite loop that check the file changes and display web pages ?

[vfwood]

this code is a basic read and react script.

the whole file is read into $buff.

If the word happy is fount then happy.html will be shown, otherwise it will be sad.html

If you provide more detail I'll provide a more detailed reply.

Cheers

<?php

$fp = fopen ("myfile.txt", "r")

{
while (!feof($fp)) {

read in 512 chars at a time

$buff. = fgets ($fp, 512);
}
}
fclose ($fp);

$buff now contains whole file

if (strstr($buff, "happy")) {
$fname = "happy.html";
}
else {
$fname = "sad.html";
}
$pt = fopen ($fname, "r");
fpassthru($pt);
fclose($pt);
?>

[ame12]

my recommendation is to do an include on each page like this:

<?php include("recheck.php"); ?>

Then recheck would do this:

<?php
// do fopen logic here
// determine page to vector to as $PAGE
// fclose
if (isset($PAGE)) {
?>
header("Location: ".$PAGE);
<?php
}
?>

<META HTTP-EQUIV=Refresh CONTENT="3; URL=<%=$PHP_SELF;%>>
...

This general logic would recycle each 3 seconds, doing the file check and directing to a different page if necessary.

Dave

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