Do query every 5 min

[saint4]

How would i make it possible to run a query every 5 mins in php?

[_theworks]

CronTab if you have Cpanel installed on your server this will be very easy... Look up CRONTAB

[_theworks]

CronTab if you have Cpanel installed on your server this will be very easy... Look up CRONTAB or Cron on google

[jc94062]

I wouldn't say its very easy unless you've been using linux for a while 🙂

http://www.unixgeeks.org/security/newbie/unix/cron-1.html

Best way (I find) is to stick the 01 0 0-7 /usr/www/ .... etc stuff into a cron.file (or something) and then edit that and run

crontab cron.file

It'll do the same but I found working out crons hard enough without having to learn how to edit the files using crontab -e as well...

Basically you have set of 5 values which you list as to when the cron will run (0-59/5 0-23 0-7 should do the job for 5 minutes) and then list out the script to run.

[jkarr]

one way would be to create a query in a php file and insert this line in the header:

echo "<meta http-equiv=refresh content=500;url=page.php>";

replace 500 with the actual number for 5 minutes, I forget what 500 represents.

page.php should be the same page that the query is saved to, so that it refreshes itself.

That line should be in the page header.

This is probably not the best solution, but it's one I suppose. Just open the page and leave your computer on and the page up.