#2217 [Com]: Internal Task Scheduler

ID: 2217 Comment by: Johnfontana2003 at yahoo dot com Reported By: nikolail at viny dot com Status: Closed Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Operating System: ALL PHP Version: 3.0.12 New Comment: Why not? Cold Fusion has its own scheduler, it works brilliantly. Why should it need to be able to execute any file, when of course any shared hosting situation would just disable that functionality? I think it's a great idea. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [1999-09-02 09:56:13] zeev at cvs dot php dot net This is really way beyond the scope of a web oriented scripting language (and in my opinion, of any computer language at all). Cron has been used for years on UNIX systems, Win32 systems have their own way of scheduling tasks, and any other operating system out there worth mentioning probably has one as well. Writing a complete platform-independent task scheduler might be a worthy project (seems rather hopeless to me) - but it definitely has nothing to do with PHP. If&when someone actually does this, it definitely shouldn't be related to PHP and should be able to run any executable the operating system supports. Zeev ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [1999-09-02 09:44:39] nikolail at viny dot com Some nice feature to add, I think alot folks would like internal PHP task scheduler, and abbility to submit tasks from within php code, i know you can use cron for that , but to make it os independent something like that should exists inside of PHP. It has to be ran as daemon i think and php should have set of functions to control it like: task_id = task_create(PHP script,period,start_datetime,end_datetime); array tasks = tasks_list(); task_remove(task_id); where period could be "WEEKLY"/"DAYLY"/"HOURLY"/"MONTHLY"/"YEARLY" And could be also some other stuff, so just using: task_create("http://www.test.com/tasks/report.php","WEEKLY",time(),NULL); will submit task to scheduler asking it to execute report.php each week("WEEKLY") starting from right now (time()) until cancel (NULL) Thanks ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=2217&edit=1