Posted by Rik on 03/09/07 11:39

Iván Sánchez Ortega <ivansanchez-alg@rroba-escomposlinux.-.punto.-.org>
wrote:

> BG Mahesh wrote:
>
>> Java has a Timer class (include some URL) which allows us to kick off
>> a process/task at specified time. How can I achieve the same in PHP5?
>
> php.net/sleep
>

Not quite.

It's actually a bit harder to start a task while still processing the own
task. It could be done using pcntl_fork() and a sleep() for 'short' times,
otherwise I'd choose Cron
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