most efficient way to pause

sarahk

I have a script which is backing up my mysql database. The text file is always being incremented and at the end there is a fclose($fptr);

However the file is over 3MB so it takes a while to write. No problem under most circumstances but ... I want to email the file so I have to pause for a wee bit to allow the file to be written before trying to email it.

Currently all I get sent is the shell created when the file pointer is first created.

My current solution is

for ($i = 0; $i < 1000; i++)
  {$j = true;}

Any ideas?

notionlogic

I've not come across anything better myself - what's wrong with your current solution?

Although I would say that possibly 1000 is too small as PHP runs very fast ? 🙂

sarahk

didn't seem "elegant".

I've upped it to 1000000 and even that's too low. Will keep working on it tomorrow.

thanks for the quick reply.

notionlogic

lol... "tomorrow" ?? I've only just started "today" 😃

Just had a sudden thought..

It might be more reliable to work with times - grab the current time, add say 2 minutes to it and then check against the current time until it matches!

volleytotal_ch

guess you need some sleep() before posting your next topic 😉

but make sure that you don't timeout in bed!

sarahk

thanks

seems that "you sleep" is better than any old "sleep"!

I tried timeout and wait and pause and a couple of other function names from other languages and just didn't think of taking a "nap".

volleytotal_ch

have a nice time in bed but don't forget to exit or you might die
:p