Running a php script more then once

[Randomizer]

Is it possible to run a php script(or piece of code) more then once without refreshing?

[bubblenut]

You could call it within the script with something like file('http://yoursite/thefile.php') but you'd have to be very carefull to prevent infinite recursion and to be honest there shouldn't be any reason why you would need to run the whole script more than once. You can always use loops around whatever code you need repeated.
HTH
Bubble

NB When I be very carefull, in theory you could knock your server down vey quickly. I've never tried it before but I'm going to see what happens now. If my box dies I'm holding you personally responsible 😉

[edit]
For me it just timed out. I only made a little test file.

<?php
echo('A test');
file('http://localhost/'.$_SERVER['php_self']);
?>

Also, this would fail on exeding memory limit as well because file will actually be returning data. You have to do it with fsockopen without retrieving any of the data, just firing of the call. In theory this will start up another call which will be completely independant and will also start off another call.
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[Randomizer]

Well I'm making sorta a game and I need the opposing user's page to refresh when the other user makes a attack so user1 attacks, user2's page refreshes (telling he/she has been attacked) but I don't know how to check if user1 has attacked, with user2 without runing my script over and over... any ideas?

[bubblenut]

No can't do that easily with php as php is a server side language. You either need to write an applet to run in the browser or (if javascript supports it and I don't know about that) set up a socket between the application running on your server and the browser. I imagine there'd be some pretty hefty security holdbacks on this though, if javascript does support sockets anyway, which is doubtfull.
I'd suggest writing a java applet.

Of course, another option would be to get the page to refresh every 5 seconds or so and have the script just check to see if anything has changed, although this will be rather slow for the user and rather resource intesive for the server, especially if people open it up and just forget about it.