Comments on: PHP Crontab replacements http://planetozh.com/blog/2004/10/php-crontab-replacements/?source=rss A bit of my personal life, mainly focused on my kids. A bit of code, mainly focused on Wordpress and PHP. Overall, bits of nothing in particular. Fri, 18 May 2012 15:58:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: scott http://planetozh.com/blog/2004/10/php-crontab-replacements/comment-page-1/#comment-34729 scott Thu, 04 Jan 2007 17:16:23 +0000 http://frenchfragfactory.net/ozh/archives/2004/10/12/php-crontab-replacements/#comment-34729 i had a little "tip of the day" script drawing tis from a mysql table. simply had a table with a value called last_updated; when a user accessed the page it checked if the current date matched the last_updated date. if not, it ran the script for a new tip and changed the date in the table to the current date. i had a little “tip of the day” script drawing tis from a mysql table. simply had a table with a value called last_updated; when a user accessed the page it checked if the current date matched the last_updated date. if not, it ran the script for a new tip and changed the date in the table to the current date.

]]> By: Johnnie Rose, Jr. http://planetozh.com/blog/2004/10/php-crontab-replacements/comment-page-1/#comment-26592 Johnnie Rose, Jr. Fri, 28 Jul 2006 15:24:54 +0000 http://frenchfragfactory.net/ozh/archives/2004/10/12/php-crontab-replacements/#comment-26592 Another option is to schedule PHP scripts to run specifically when a web page is accessed; Jerrata Backbone does this, and supports invoking multiple scripts when a page is visited. Another option is to schedule PHP scripts to run specifically when a web page is accessed; Jerrata Backbone does this, and supports invoking multiple scripts when a page is visited.

]]> By: Oscar M. http://planetozh.com/blog/2004/10/php-crontab-replacements/comment-page-1/#comment-4397 Oscar M. Tue, 14 Feb 2006 15:31:25 +0000 http://frenchfragfactory.net/ozh/archives/2004/10/12/php-crontab-replacements/#comment-4397 You can also emulate cron pretty simply using caching (such as PEAR Cache) and the date() function. I wrote about that here: http://www.oscarm.org/news/phpdevel/502.php You can also emulate cron pretty simply using caching (such as PEAR Cache) and the date() function. I wrote about that here:

http://www.oscarm.org/news/phpdevel/502.php

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