Hey,
I want to call a php script every minute. My scriptruntime on my webserver is about 90 sec. I thought doing it with cronjobs but i have to pay for that service. Is there an other possibility?
Thanks a lot.
+3
A:
Not really. You could have the script call itself 60 seconds after it completes. But if the script crashes, it won't restart.
Something like sleep(60*1000) to cause it to sleep for 60 and then just either call the page again, or start the script over at the top.
Malfist
2009-12-23 21:41:13
PHP might timeout...
luiscubal
2009-12-23 21:41:46
Well, cron is the accepted tool for this, anything else is a hack.
Malfist
2009-12-23 21:44:27
hmmm... single point of failure... not good.
jldupont
2009-12-23 21:49:00
`sleep(60*1000)` would put PHP to sleep for almost 17 hours!
Alix Axel
2009-12-24 02:00:55
That's fine, Alex, the longer php sleeps the better this world gets.
Michael Krelin - hacker
2009-12-24 08:54:31
+7
A:
Use a script on Google AppEngine to "ping" yours (Scheduled Tasks to be more precise). It's free :-)
jldupont
2009-12-23 21:42:53
@rdesign: create a Scheduled Task on GAE (it's a cron job that calls a script in your GAE project) and have the "cron script" issue an "HTTP GET" (or whatever) to your server. This would trigger the PHP script on your server.
jldupont
2009-12-24 12:26:58
A:
Try some online cron services. This is more or less the same jldupont suggested, though.
Depending on the php setup you might be able to launch your script with
php /wherever/yourscript.php </dev/null &>/dev/null
command line from inside php.
Michael Krelin - hacker
2009-12-23 21:44:56