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

On Wed, October 4, 2006 3:25 am, Richard Quadling wrote: > On 04/10/06, Roland Schwingel <Roland.Schwingel@onevision.com> wrote: > >> I tried the "AT" thingy also, but I am not very confident about >> errorlogging and it opens up an IMHO too big difference in Windows >> and Unix handling of my app's installation and maintenance process, >> so I think I will give my cron solution a try... > > But they ARE different OS. When you want the OS to do something for > you outside of PHP, you cannot necessarily use the same techniques. > You have to be OS aware at that stage. > > If the code is run on a MAC, would you need a different mechanism > again? OS X, no, you would not need a different mechanism, because OS X is pretty much FreeBSD+OpenBSD+AppleGUICode. So it has a perfectly fine cron/at command. MacOS 9.x and below, if PHP even runs on it, I suppose you have a point, except I don't think anybody has seriously gotten PHP to run stable on MacOS below X -- could be wrong, of course. There are probably *other* OSes out there that PHP runs on, like TiVo, where you have no "at" command... Good Luck! -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some starving artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So?