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phplinuxprocessbackground
Osa
Osa

Reputation: 1990

PHP background process to do something a day?

I'm trying to run my PHP script on linux server once a day automatically without having to press something, only once and process keeps running till a specific date,

How do I do this WITHOUT making a high traffic load on the server?

what i did so far is using ignore_user_abort() function to keep it running and also using sleep() function in a while loop to check every specific time how much left for the next day but it seemed a high process for the server

What's the easiest way to do this?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 354

Answers (2)

Matthew Vita
Matthew Vita

Reputation: 213

00 11 * * * /usr/local/bin/php /home/you/your_script.php

This is a cron job that will run your script at 11:00 AM everyday.

Upvotes: 1

SomeKittens
SomeKittens

Reputation: 39522

If you're using a Linux server, there's a much easier way. Simply create a cron job (tutorial) to run the script once a day.

I've never used it, but a Windows server should have something called "Task Scheduler" to do the same thing.

Upvotes: 3

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