Re: [PHP Guru question]: run php script from within pecl extension

> For several reasons I need to call a php script every x minutes. > I need that on several platforms so I started to write a pecl > extension that implements something like a cron service. > Why not cron then? > Obviously I miss something in initing php, because php > crashes in main/streams/streams.c function php_stream_locate_url_wrapper() > when I call php_execute_script() > Correct. You're not in a request (you're probably not even in an identifiable/unique thread context). Both are fixable by spinning up a context at thread startup and either (A) wrapping a request activate/deactivate around that timer, or (B) wrapping the activate/deactivate just inside your thread context (giving you a single-uberlong-running request). > because the variable > 'wrapper_hash' inited at the very beginning in that > function appears to become a bad value. > Which tells me that both of the issues above are relevant. But coming back to the first question: What's wrong with cron? -Sara