Re: Time

No both time and sleep use seconds. see http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.sleep.php and http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.time.php respectivly. if you want to use milliseconds, you need to use usleep see http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.usleep.php just nitpicking my last few awake moments of the day :) -- Chris Steph wrote: > Seconds? I thought milliseconds? > > Oh well, suck it and see, Josh! > ;) > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chris Chabot" <chabotc@reviewboard.com> > To: "Josh Seward" <js389599@ohiou.edu> > Cc: <php-windows@lists.php.net>; "php-gtk" <php-gtk@lists.php.net> > Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 4:31 AM > Subject: Re: [PHP-GTK] Time > > Umm the obvious reply would be to go to download.com and browse to see if they have a shareware > version of a cron like application, i am sure they do... i remember seeing some of those. > > Otherwise, code a simple php or c or delphi or visual basic app that only does > > while (1) > sleep(60*60); > exec('application') > end > > Can't be that hard to write right? :) > or even if you wanted it -on- every hour and not every hour, just do a > if ( frac (time() / (60*60) ) == 0) { > exec('application') > } > (ie if the dividable time / 'seconds in hour' has no fraction (behind the . or , > depending on locality, its on the hour) > > I realy hope this wont become a windows support mailing list though, thats kinda outside of the > scope of php-gtk? :) > > -- Chris > > Josh Seward wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > Is there a way to have php run a script at a certain time? What I really need is something > > like cron on unix systems. I would use windows scheduler but it only goes by days. I ned to run this > > once every hour. > > > > P.S. To let everyone how helped me before. I can now send commands to an outside program I > > am running w/ the fsockopen command. This is after I open the prog. with popen. Thank you all for > > your help., especially Steph and Micheal. Your efffort and advice is much appriciated. If your ever > > in Athens Ohio the first round is on me :-) > > -- > PHP GTK Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-gtk-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-gtk-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net