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Posted by Tyno Gendo on 10/10/07 11:36
Dirk Laurenz wrote:
> Hello,
>
> i've written a daemon in php and everthing works fine.
> i'm able to execute tasks periodically. for example every 900 seconds.
>
> now i want the daemon to do a task only once a day,
> for example at 1800 hours. but i'm not sure how to do
> this.
> saying something like
>
> while (true)
> {
> if ($current_time==1800) dosomething
> }
>
> fails if i miss 1800 exactly.
> saying something like
>
> while(true)
> {
> if ($current_time<=1801 && $current_time=>1800) dosomething
> }
>
> leads to running the function twice, or more depending on
> the execution time of the function.
>
> I'm using php 4.3 (more is not allowed at the moment)
>
> Thanks for any help....
>
> Greetings, Dirk
just use variable say $lastRun to store when the event last ran and then
you can check against that, within you if set $lastRun to the
$current_time when it runs and never run if $lastRun $current_time
aren't >= to the 1800 gap ?
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