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Fikri Fadzil
Fikri Fadzil

Reputation: 139

How To Schedule Task With PHP?

How to develop a schedule task system like the one used by Wordpress to schedule post? Do they use Cron Job? If they use it, how they configure it through PKP script?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1492

Answers (3)

Codemwnci
Codemwnci

Reputation: 54944

I use php cron tasks, they look like the following

0 0 * * * * php -f /var/www/public_html/mycronphpfile.php

This means, at midnight, every day, run the command line php and execute the specified file.

Upvotes: 0

Svisstack
Svisstack

Reputation: 16656

Use cron and in iterations get run php_cli interpreter with your script.

Upvotes: 0

Gareth Davidson
Gareth Davidson

Reputation: 4917

As far as I know, WordPress just sets the publish date to some time in the future. It doesn't actually cause an event to happen in the future, it just looks that way when someone views the site.

You'd need a cron job if you actually wanted to do something in the future, web servers only respond to requests made by user agents.

Upvotes: 3

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