Increment a value every 3 minutes

shane1090

I need a function that i can call in the main config page on my site that will increment a value every 3 minutes. I have tried a few ideas, but it doesn't increment. The max it can increment to is 100.

Any ideas at all? I don't know whether this might need the use of MySQL to call a time, but it should update a value in the database.

Thanks

LordShryku

You need to increment a value for 5 hours? You're going to need cron for that...

shane1090

You're going to need cron for that...

What do you mean by cron? Wouldn't it be possible to use timestamps?

LordShryku

How do you plan to trigger it? Do you plan to have a php script run for that long?

shane1090

I thought it might be possible to use timestamps. when a user does a crime at the mo, it calculates how many points the player needs for maximum 100% stamina, then times that by 150, to get the time needed to get there in seconds. add this onto time(), and i have the timestamp.

Isn't there a way to be able to take this timestamp and somehow take away the current time, to work out how much time has passed, and then add on the values they needed, so in a way it wouldn't be incrementing it, just adding on the values they need?

Weedpacket

http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10230654&highlight=cron