Re: Background processes

How consistently are the pages going to be hit? On heavy-load sites, I sometimes cache data, pre-processed templates, etc into a table since reads are fast... I update the data at various intervals, but it is only updated on a page request. In your case, I'm not sure if this would cut it. If it must be at 5-minute intervals, you'd need multiple instructions regardless of what programming language you use, since you'd either need this script to continuously run as a sort of service or you'd need it called periodically. Just my $0.02 at 4:37A. -- Eric On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 23:19, Nikhil G. Daddikar wrote: > Specifically: I am using Mail_Queue from pear and I need to send the > queued emails every 5 minutes. > > I know about cron jobs but I would like a "pure" PHP solution if > possible, so that I don't have to maintain two sets of instructions for > windows and unix users. > > Thanks.