PROS! Automatically executinng a PHP script every 60 seconds?

brianb

hello pros,

How would I set something up to automatically execute a PHP script on my server every 60 seconds?

Any coding examples are appreciated!

cahva

First of all. What OS you have? If its *NIX then you use Cron for the job. Unfortunately I havent used it so I dont know how to set it up.

If you have a windows-server, then you use the task scheduler which comes with Windoze. You just add a new task for the scheduler. For example:
C:\PHP\php.exe C:\apache\Apache2\htdocs\dascript.php

To set the interval for it, click 'Advanced' in the Schedule-tab. There you can find 'Repeat task' where you can set it to run every 60 seconds.

chrisleon

I run php cron jobs all the time, if you need the syntax to put in your cron scheduler, I can post mine.

brianb

Thanks for the replies.

Is there no means of doing this in PHP?

I'm on a UNI system, and I have the ability to run CRON JOBS....

So, if you could be so kind and post your syntax, that'd be greatly appreciated!

chrisleon

lynx -dump http://www.domain.com/php/minute.php > /dev/null%

the first * stands for the minute
the second is for hour
the third is day of month
the fourth is month
the fifth is day of week

this means it will run every minute of every hour of every day of the week.

the lynx is some command that unix supports, and I had to spend a couple hours figuring it out. then you put the address of the script, and make sure it is not an intranet, because the security becomes an issue.

Let me know if you need some more help

tomhath

lynx is a web browser, like mozilla or netscape except it only does text (no graphics).

you can run php directly as a system command from cron:

http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/jayesh20021111.php3

netmastan

Try this script ,

phpcron

cheers

netmastan

Angus

Without knowing the purpose of your script or its functionality its a little ahrd to guess - but I use a script where I use PHP to check logs every 5 mins and send me an email alert on certain conditions being true.

All I did was put a meta refresh tag in the header that reloads the page and subsequently executes the PHP. If you want to pass a parameter from refresh to refresh just use isset...

Simple but effective...

Just means you will need to have the page open in a browser somewhere.