random but once per day, not on every load

Fking

With little help (thanks zeb) i wrote a script who is selecting 5 random directories, from a directory listing, and 5 random pics from each of them.

but i don't want new random dirs and pics to be selected everytime someone loads the page

i want they to be selected once per day, and all day to be shown the same random stuff, and only on the other they to be selected new random stuff

do i have to save the randomly selected things in a file or there are other ways to do that?

celibate54

why don't you make a temp table that "once a day" randomly stores the path(s) to the pics you want to show...

so everytime a user logs in it will call those 'five random pics'

but it will 'change' every day, or however you want to set it

you could use chron/taskscheduler to accomplish this

Fking

Originally posted by celibate54
why don't you make a temp table that "once a day" randomly stores the path(s) to the pics you want to show...

so everytime a user logs in it will call those 'five random pics'

but it will 'change' every day, or however you want to set it

you could use chron/taskscheduler to accomplish this

i don't know how to do this

celibate54

well if you

"With little help (thanks zeb) i wrote a script who is selecting 5 random directories, from a directory listing, and 5 random pics from each of them."

just take the results of those finds and store them into a temp table,

and I am a bit confused on which item you are unable to do, storing stuff into a table and/or chron/taskmanager stuff

Fking

Originally posted by celibate54

and I am a bit confused on which item you are unable to do, storing stuff into a table and/or chron/taskmanager stuff

if you mean, mysql table, yes i do not know how to use databases, yet

about the cron jobs, i do not have shell access to my hosting

and i guess this taskmanager, is some windows based stuff?

cwissy

You could write the current date to a file, then when your script runs check the date saved in the file against the current date. If they are different then run your randomness script, if not just serve up the results of your randomness script from the last time it was run - assuming that you saved the results somewhere, in another file maybe.

celibate54

but that'd require it to be checked everytime somebody went to the website, it'd be more efficient just to have something automate it once per hour, ie via chron or windows task scheduler

cwissy

I agree it would be more efficient but he has no access to the servers cron.

celibate54

well, if his computer at 'home/work' is always on and always on the net he could easily setup a windows task scheduler job on his machine to run the script once an hr by calling it remotely