running php progy 24-7

[Anon]

Is there a way to ensure that your php program runs 24-7? there is a setting the php.ini max_execution_time is there a way to disable this?

thanx!

[junebug]

why would you want it to continuously run?

[Anon]

We have a large database that we manipulate, i have writen a server side app in php that has a task manager, so when some one queues up a task the server will exec it and wait for another, the tasks can take up to 1 hour and having multiple access to the database can't happen, so the server goes thru the quere and exec each task, when its not working it sleeps, wakes up every 1min and checks for new task, i use PHP conf'ged with CGI so i can run command line.. but i need it to run all the time.

[toma42]

cron it to run every minuite. This could be a problem with multiple processes running if each task is as long as you say.

[saloon12yrd]

cron sounds reasonable. Add table locking to the DB process and you should have what you need.

Greets,

Dominique

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Hmmm..
Use the crontab to start a job from a PHP script as a jobhandler
The next time the crontab runs, check if the jobhandler is still running.
If it is, the job is not finished. If yes, the job is finished, move to the next job.