It sure would do a whole lot of stuff when it's running 30 minutes.
Anyway to do a periodical request, you can do:
// create an Request instance
var request = new Request({
// some options
});
// Call the send method every 12 seconds
(function(){
request.send();
}).periodical(12000);
Alternatively you can do something like, and now between each request is at
least 12 seconds. It probably won't be a problem, but if you have request
which take longer than 12 seconds to respond, you'll end up with multiple
requests at the same time which is not wanted.
request.addEvent('complete', function(){
(function(){
request.send();
}).delay(1200);
});
You can do it a little bit shorter this way, so you don't have to wrap it in
a new function:
request.delay(12000, request);
or
request.periodical(12000, request);
Stopping the timer can be done with clearInterval or clearTimeout. You have
to save the returned value of periodical or delay in a variable which you
can pass into one of those functions.
Finally you probably want to use DOMReady instead the onload attribute on
the body element.
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Mike <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a long php script running on the server. Right now, it runs
> (maybe a half hour) displaying NOTHING to the person running it. When
> it's done, it shows a list of everything that happened. I need to let
> the person running it know that it's running and where it is in the
> process as the script runs. I'm writing updates to a file called /
> backup/status.html. I'd like to kick-off the script (and keep it
> running), while at the same time continually displaying the contents
> of /backup/status.html.
>
> I think my answer lies in MooTools request.periodical. I just have no
> clue how to make that work.... and how to have it kick off the php
> script at the same time.
>
> So: kickoff /backup/script.php (and keep it running), at the same
> time continually grab and display the contents of /backup/status.html.
>
> I haven't even been able to get request.periodical to work at all.
> Here's what I tried:
>
> <script type="text/javascript" src="/backup/mootools13.js"></script>
> <script>
> var i = 0;
> var r = new Request({
> url: '/backup/status.html',
> method: 'get',
> initialDelay: 100,
> delay: 100,
> limit: 1000,
> onRequest: function(){
> $('result').adopt(new Element('li', {
> html: 'attempt: ' + (i++)
> }));
> },
> onSuccess: function(r){
> $('result').adopt(new Element('li', {
> html: 'success: ' + r
> }));
> }
> }).startTimer({
> sleep: 2
> });
>
>
> (function(){
> r.stopTimer();
> $('result').adopt(new Element('li', {
> html: 'test complete.'
> }));
> }).delay(12000);
>
> </script>
>
> <body onload="r.start.Timer()">
> <div id="result"></div>
>
