Re: Event Handling

Op 3/15/10 12:00 PM, David Hutto schreef: > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 7:31 AM, Jochem Maas <jochem@iamjochem.com> wrote: > >> Op 3/15/10 8:24 AM, Midhun Girish schreef: >>> Hi , >>> Just as David Hutto has said,What you need is the cronjob... Make a >> script >>> say "check.php" which checks the db to see if any new entries are made... >>> and if yes send the mail ... >>> >>> now using the cronjob feature in linux os(which will be provided as a >>> service in your linux hosting cpanel), set a cronjob which calls the " >>> http://www.yoursite.com/check.php" URL every >>> minute.... now a trigger >> will >>> be there every minute to the script and the emails will be send >> irrespective >>> of whether anyone is browsing the site or not.... hope it is clear... >>> >> >> use cron - yes >> have cron call a web URL - no, instead just call the script via the php CLI >> sapi, >> e.g. a cmdline as follows in cron: >> >> /usr/env php /path/to/your/check.php &> /dev/null >> > > > I do believe removing the /dev/null will send error messages during the > building of the script, correct? > the '&> /dev/null' redirects all output - I kind of make the assumption that the script would be logging stuff to a file or something when in production. so, yes, remove the redirection when your developing/testing the script.