RE: [PHP] scheduled tasks
[snip] Does anyone know if there is any other way to have a php script run automatically (everyday, or week, or month, etc...) besides a cron job or scheduled task? Thanks. [/snip] I suppose that you could run a script with a sleep statement for x time, the re-direct to itself restarting the sleep statement. Hmmm? Jay -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] scheduled tasks
If the issue is running a cron job on the server, you could run the cron job or scheduled task on a client with lynx. The client would just need to be on and have access to the server at the time it fires up the task. --- Matt Palermo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know if there is any other way to have a php script run automatically (everyday, or week, or month, etc...) besides a cron job or scheduled task? Thanks. Matt = Mark Weinstock [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** You can't demand something as a right unless you are willing to fight to death to defend everyone else's right to the same thing. *** __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] scheduled tasks
Is currently anyway of doing scheduled tasks with PHP (without using crontab)? What's wrong with using cron? I'm building an OSS site where the PostgreSQL data base maintenance, email sending, stats gathering, number crunching and graph plotting needs to be automated. My target audience will need things as simple as possible. I am under the impression that it would be a hassle and cost more to get a web host to install a cron script for Postgres. (Or have php as an executable binary instead of shared object.) What I do so far is look at a serial number from a data base table. If it is divisible by 20, I fill up a graph plotting que. If divisible by 50, another que is filled, etc. The footer has a script that checks a table with each que status and then does does a few things out of the highest priority que. I figure the user will not notice a few small scripts running after all the text is displayed. If there is a better way, let me know!! Thanks, Jeff
Re: [PHP] scheduled tasks
At 06:41 AM 2/16/2002 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is currently anyway of doing scheduled tasks with PHP (without using crontab)? What's wrong with using cron? I'm building an OSS site where the PostgreSQL data base maintenance, email sending, stats gathering, number crunching and graph plotting needs to be automated. My target audience will need things as simple as possible. I am under the impression that it would be a hassle and cost more to get a web host to install a cron script for Postgres. (Or have php as an executable binary instead of shared object.) If the web host gives you access to a shell account then you could setup the script...you wouldn't need them to do it. You could build a copy of PHP as an executable in your home directory and run it from there, no need to get the host to do it. Or there are a few ways that you could schedule the task remotely...use a cron job from another server that either runs the PHP script locally, connecting to the SQL database remotely, or you can use a cron job and lynx to call a remote PHP page that will run your script. Of course, this requires your script to be in your web servers directory tree, but if security is a concern you could always setup a .htaccess file to challenge for credentials then use the -auth switch to lynx in your remote script. It's not the most secure thing in the world, but it's better than nothing... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] scheduled tasks
On Friday, February 15, 2002, at 03:03 PM, Rodney Davis wrote:
Is currently anyway of doing scheduled tasks with PHP (without using
crontab)? For example, using an email script to send out e-mail
reminders every Monday or something like that?
One way to do it (stole this from my 'Beginning PHP' book [Wrox]):
Store the current timestamp into a file. Read this file every time some
commonly-used feature of your site is executed. Then, when X number of
seconds has passed beyond the timestamp, execute some other code:
$countfile = ./countfile.txt;
$fp = fopen($countfile, 'r+');
$oldtime = fread($fp);
if ((time()) = ($oldtime + 24 * 60 * 60 * 7)) {
// a week has passed since the last time the file was written to
// execute the code (mail or whatever)
}
rewind($fp);
fwrite($fp, time());
fclose($fp);
or something like that. NB this code is definitely untested, so it
probably won't work, but the theory is there. Also, be sure to take
into account the security issues of having a file writeable by your web
server -- I'm assuming you already have experience with this.
Erik
Erik Price
Web Developer Temp
Media Lab, H.H. Brown
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RE: [PHP] scheduled tasks
What do people think about making a cron job call a page by doing a lynx http://www.site.com/automatedtasks.php every hour? -Original Message- From: Michael Sims [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: February 16, 2002 9:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] scheduled tasks At 06:41 AM 2/16/2002 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is currently anyway of doing scheduled tasks with PHP (without using crontab)? What's wrong with using cron? I'm building an OSS site where the PostgreSQL data base maintenance, email sending, stats gathering, number crunching and graph plotting needs to be automated. My target audience will need things as simple as possible. I am under the impression that it would be a hassle and cost more to get a web host to install a cron script for Postgres. (Or have php as an executable binary instead of shared object.) If the web host gives you access to a shell account then you could setup the script...you wouldn't need them to do it. You could build a copy of PHP as an executable in your home directory and run it from there, no need to get the host to do it. Or there are a few ways that you could schedule the task remotely...use a cron job from another server that either runs the PHP script locally, connecting to the SQL database remotely, or you can use a cron job and lynx to call a remote PHP page that will run your script. Of course, this requires your script to be in your web servers directory tree, but if security is a concern you could always setup a .htaccess file to challenge for credentials then use the -auth switch to lynx in your remote script. It's not the most secure thing in the world, but it's better than nothing... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] scheduled tasks
What do people think about making a cron job call a page by doing a lynx
http://www.site.com/automatedtasks.php every hour?
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From: Erik Price [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: February 16, 2002 3:02 PM
To: Rodney Davis
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [PHP] scheduled tasks
On Friday, February 15, 2002, at 03:03 PM, Rodney Davis wrote:
Is currently anyway of doing scheduled tasks with PHP (without using
crontab)? For example, using an email script to send out e-mail
reminders every Monday or something like that?
One way to do it (stole this from my 'Beginning PHP' book [Wrox]):
Store the current timestamp into a file. Read this file every time some
commonly-used feature of your site is executed. Then, when X number of
seconds has passed beyond the timestamp, execute some other code:
$countfile = ./countfile.txt;
$fp = fopen($countfile, 'r+');
$oldtime = fread($fp);
if ((time()) = ($oldtime + 24 * 60 * 60 * 7)) {
// a week has passed since the last time the file was written to
// execute the code (mail or whatever)
}
rewind($fp);
fwrite($fp, time());
fclose($fp);
or something like that. NB this code is definitely untested, so it
probably won't work, but the theory is there. Also, be sure to take
into account the security issues of having a file writeable by your web
server -- I'm assuming you already have experience with this.
Erik
Erik Price
Web Developer Temp
Media Lab, H.H. Brown
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: [PHP] scheduled tasks
At 10:03 AM 2/15/2002 -1000, Rodney Davis wrote: Is currently anyway of doing scheduled tasks with PHP (without using crontab)? For example, using an email script to send out e-mail reminders every Monday or something like that? What's wrong with using cron? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
