Possible in php?

Anon

Is there any way in php to make a page run every x minutes?

Say i have a parse.php which rips the headlines off CNN, I dont want to have to parse CNN main page every time a user requests my page, but preferrably for it to be parsed on the hour every hour and stored in a DB..

Probably not a good description but does anyone have any idea how I can do this?

Thanks in advance..

Anon

Normally you do this via a cron job. FOr example slashdot, which is dynamically generated by perl, makes static pages for it's frontpage and updates those every 30 minutes or so. Just set your php script to be executed every X minutes in the cronjob. Do a search on this forum to find more detailed info. I belive you can use the scheduler in windows if you are using that.

Anon

i think scheduler only allows daily runs and sucks the llamas ass.

Anon

create a php script that is called from an at job, using the php.exe. Might need to create a batch file to do it. use the fsock_open to open a conection to lets say CCN and read in teh HTML data. Parse out what you want and put it where you want.

--Jason