Re: [PHP] Event Handling

Indeed. This is kinda offtopic but if you put a cron running with a
loop you will kill your server. I would recomend use libevent + ALARM
signal to process on a time basis. On the other hand using C would be
a nice aproach since you can put your script on an sleep mode until
the next alarm signal is trigered + less resources taken

Saludos

On 3/15/10, Paul M Foster <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 05:38:04PM -0000, Alex Major wrote:
>
>> Thanks to all for your help on this, it's been very interesting for me to
>> read.
>>
>> The system needs to check arrivals in real time (give or take a second or
>> two), using a cron job every minute doesn't provide the real time checking
>> I
>> would like.
>>
>> However, when I then got to thinking about it, wouldn't this be an ideal
>> solution? I create a PHP script that loops for 60 seconds, checking the
>> database each second for new entries and processing them (meaning I get
>> near
>> real time monitoring), and then have that PHP script called by a cron job
>> every minute.
>>
>> The reason I think that could be a good solution for me, is that if the
>> PHP
>> script crashed (for any reason), then at most it's 59 seconds before the
>> system kicks in again and begins processing all the queued arrivals. If I
>> coded a PHP script to loop infinitely processing things every second, it's
>> possible I wouldn't notice a crash for a considerable amount of time. The
>> proposed solution provides a good fail-safe, I think.
>>
>> Does that solution seem sensible? Or overkill?
>>
>> Thanks again for your help in this, it's quite novel for me.
>
> I would think that the PHP CLI extension would need to be installed on
> the server for this to work. I don't know that that's common. (I could
> be completely wrong.)
>
> I would recommend coding this in C, because it would use far less
> resources.
>
> Paul
>
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