Can I work with sceduled tasks?

[joostschouten]

Hi,

I am a JAVA programmer and wish to build a small PHP tool which will check the status of my java application.

I would like to know if PHP can execute scripts on the server without a request being made. In JAVA I can start executing my code upon server startup and loop through my code once every n seconds. Is this possible in PHP, and if so, does anyone have a simple example?

Kind regards and I look forward to your reply,
Joost Schouten
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http://www.jsportal.com

 

[jpadie]

yes it can. just call "php.exe /path/to/script/scriptname.php"

in windows you use task scheduler (control panel on desktop boxes) to do this. in *nix establish a chron job

 

[Chacalinc]

if you are un *nix environment you create the script as follow:


#!/where_is/php

echo "Code begins here..";

..

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then chmod +x script.php and put it in cron job.

cheers

 

[joostschouten]

Thanks guys, that will do the trick for me! I love the prompt replies here!

Have a great day,
Joost