Re: D6 Determining if cron or user
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Great! Thanks Carl. Ayen Designs - quality software the first time, every time! -----Original Message----- From: Carl Wiedemann <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 10:26:36 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [development] D6 Determining if cron or user Sorry, you said Drupal 6 -- use variable_get('cron_semaphore'). See http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/includes--common.inc/function/drupal_cron_run/6 The lock API is D7. Carl Wiedemann Website design and development consulting [email protected] | skype: c4rlww On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Carl Wiedemann <[email protected]>wrote: > You could check global $user -- cron runs as anon. You could also > check lock_acquire('cron', 240.0), which indicates cron is running. > > Carl Wiedemann > Website design and development consulting > [email protected] | skype: c4rlww > > > > On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 10:06 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I've been chasing the most annoying issue. I have a module that fires >> off XML when a video node is updated, in order to prepare the advertising >> that plays prior the video. The issue was that this process seemed to he >> inconsistent, and it turns out that a cron job that updates the Facebook >> 'likes' data is doing node saves, which triggers nodeapi with op=update just >> like saving a node via the node form. >> >> I thought of adding a hidden field to the node form and testing for it, >> but I was wondering if there is an easier way to determine what is firing >> the hook, batch or user, process, something? >> >> Jeff >> > >