PHP jobs

Anon

is it possible to launch php jobs to read text files during the night ?

Anon

Yes, if you have a task scheduler on your system. Read the discussion thread at http://www.phpbuilder.com/forum/read.php3?num=2&id=133531&loc=0&thread=133531

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Anon

I would like to display before of my script is fully ended at the server. I am using the function flush() but it doesn´t work. I´ve got IE 5 and I think that server operative system is windows nt 4. Could you help me?. I don´t know what I must to do because it seems like this function is not working properly (I don´t know).

Thanks a million, Daniel.

I apologize because of my english.

fleymingmasc

What are you trying to display? If you are trying to flush a table to the browser, it will not display until you reach the end of the table. This happens because the browser needs to calculate the width of each cell in the table before it starts drawing.

There is a workaround for this in IE5, Netscape 6 and Mozilla. You can declare a table as <table style="table-layout:fixed"> and then explicitly declare column widths:
<col width="40"><col width="60">
If you do this, the browser will draw the table row-by-row as it receives the flushed data, rather than waiting for the whole table. However, this will not work with earlier browsers. (See the CSS2 specification at www.w3c.org.)

Anon

If you just set the td widths, IE will display the table correctly as it renders. Netscape will wait until completion to display. That method works better than the CSS way.

dave

Anon

Yes you may start them by Task Shceduler on Windows systems or by Cron on unix systems.

I think you should have php installed as an CGI executable to run php tasks outside of your Web server, i mean, if you have php installed as Apache module, or as an IIS module there's no obvious solution except for as running php executable.