[PHP-DB] background process
hi everyone, has anyone here created an application using background processes? what i have in mind is to be able to run the background process once a day to check for files that are more than 5 days old and delete them. thanks in advance. regards, ric -- == Note: The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient,or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this to the intended recipient,you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Thank you. == -- PHP Database 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-DB] background process
hi, thanks for the reply. i will look up docs that discuss cron. i'm sorry but i didn't get what you mean by m/c. please explain. thanks! regards, ric DL Neil wrote: has anyone here created an application using background processes? what i have in mind is to be able to run the background process once a day to check for files that are more than 5 days old and delete them. thanks in advance. ric, PHP (and scripts) can be executed from the command line (given that it has been appropriately set up on your m/c). This is discussed in the docs. Thereafter it becomes a matter of setting up a 'trigger' to kick-off execution at set times using CRON (*nix) or AT (Windows?32-bit). =dn -- == Note: The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient,or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this to the intended recipient,you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Thank you. == -- PHP Database 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-DB] executing system commands
hi, i'm a newbiew php developer. i'm trying to execute a system command in one of my php scripts. what i would like to do is to create a directory. my code goes like this: // chunk of code starts here $directory = generate_sessionid(); $command = mkdir /home/httpd/html/miroku/downloads/$directory; system($command, $dirsuccess); // chunk of code ends here generate_sessionid() is a function that generates a string that contains 16 random integers (0-9). i want to use that random string as the name of the directory that i'm creating. i checked php3.ini if safe mode is on but it is set to Off. thanks in advance! regards, ric -- == Note: The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient,or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this to the intended recipient,you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Thank you. == -- PHP Database 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-DB] NEXTVAL(serial)
hello. i've seen DEFAULT NEXTVAL(serial) being used in some examples but i have not seen an explanation of what it exactly does. can anyone please explain what it is and how it can be used? i have some idea but i want to make sure by asking other people. thanks! ric -- == Note: The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient,or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this to the intended recipient,you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Thank you. == -- PHP Database 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]
