Re: [PHP] Periodic Actions in PHP?

Hi,

> I'm going to create a small chat script with PHP. The messages you want others to see
> will be added to a flat file (I.E. TXT file), and read and displayed by PHP. However, I want
> this reading and displaying to be periodic. This means that I want PHP to check the file for
> new lines every,say, fifteen seconds. How may I do that? I have been unable to find any
> function that acts like a timer.

If you're on Unix then look into using cron. Type the following at the
command prompt to get info on cron:

man 5 crontab

Cron tasks can be scheduled at most once per minute. And if you're
using Windows then I believe the equivalent would be task scheduler,
but I've no idea how you would go about using it.

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