[PHP] timer in php-cli
Hello, I'm writing a php irc bot. I've come up to the situation where I need a timer for processing different data in a "special" way. I've searched the archive of the list but I didn't found nothing helpful (I can't use JavaScript here, neither cron). If I use for(;;) or sleep(); the whole script stops (php is not multithread:(). Eventually I've come up with some ideas about ticks, but didn't get to finished it my head. So, any ideas? And is php5 going to be multithreaded? If not, when?:) -- best wishes, Strahil Minev, http://sourceforge.net/users/phuncky/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] timer in PHP
I'm guessing it's either for a Quiz script or an Auction script. If you want to make it easy on yourself, use a database to store the starting time (when the timer "starts") and what time the test/auction should end. When someome makes a submission, get the time stored in the database and see if the person's submission is within the timelimit (check if the current time is less than the finish time). If the current time is within 2 minutes of the ending time, then take the ending time, add 5 minutes to it, and then store it. If you try to do this all in a sort of real-time, you're only making it hard on yourself and it's more or less impossible to do (without killing yourself in resources, anyway). Doing it with a database, once you get it working in the first place, may even be considered trivial. You may be pleasantly surprised...unless you can't use a database :) -- Plutarck Should be working on something... ...but forgot what it was. ""george"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 9b1p05$t6c$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:9b1p05$t6c$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > I need to have a time running and after a certain time it will not allow > you to submit anything else, on top of that if someone makes an entry with > less than 2 minutes to go the time must be extended by 5 minutes. > I really am at a loss how to do this. > Can it be done. > > TIA > > George > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] timer in PHP
there is no sure way, but using cookies/sessions you can make something that will *work* . assign the user a session_id, every time the user makes an entry add a value to the db, session_id = $SessionID next_time = time() + 120 every time you make an entry, check to make sure that next_time < time() if it is then proceed, else update next_time = time + 300; If you need a code example email me, I'll whip something up :) -- Chris Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] ""george"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 9b1p05$t6c$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:9b1p05$t6c$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... I need to have a time running and after a certain time it will not allow you to submit anything else, on top of that if someone makes an entry with less than 2 minutes to go the time must be extended by 5 minutes. I really am at a loss how to do this. Can it be done. TIA George -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PHP] timer in PHP
I need to have a time running and after a certain time it will not allow you to submit anything else, on top of that if someone makes an entry with less than 2 minutes to go the time must be extended by 5 minutes. I really am at a loss how to do this. Can it be done. TIA George -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
