Resident/batch process?

[Anon]

I'm wondering if I can implement a regident or a batch process using php that runs every certain hour.

Because it involves quite amount of logic, the database batch process might not be a good idea for me.

Does anyone have an idea how to do this without leaving a page open for automatic refresh?

Thank you in advance.

ds

[Anon]

What I do is put lynx in a cron job.

lynx http://localhost/batchjob.php3

seems to work well. Can dump the output to a log file or whatever as well.

[Anon]

You can also compile php as an executable (just compile it without any --with-apache or flags like that. Then put the php executable in your path and head up unix/linux scripts with:

#!/usr/local/bin/php -q
<?
code goes here...

Then just cron it up.

[Anon]

What are you trying to do? There may be a better way to do it. I'm not sure what Database server you're using, but most servers offer some kind of batch processing script solution and you can even create user defined functions. You can do a LOT with batch processing in MySQL and the user defined functions and a somewhat extensive core library allow you to get pretty complex with it.

But if it's gotta be PHP, the lynx solutions sounds pretty good.