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

Hi Sara... Thanks for your reply... Sara Golemon schrieb:

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? I love cron, but I am mainly (85%) on windows with my apps and

want to have a simple and easy setup and not a bunch of applications/services to install. There is just the apache service bringing in php and my pecl. All other solutions I know are much more voluminous and have more errorpoints.

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). Do you have some example / skeleton stuff for this

or can you give me a pointer on this where to find? Many thanks in advance, Roland