Posted by Andrew @ Rockface on 09/29/14 11:28

Adam wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Oct 2005 07:50:59 +0000 (UTC), Andrew @ Rockface wrote:
>
>
>>chotiwallah wrote:
>
>
>>You could use an infinite loop and stick the code to be executed inside
>>with a sleep at the end.
>>
>>$x = 5;
>>while(1) {
>> echo "Hello world";
>> sleep($x);
>>}
>
>
> I've been digging around looking for info on precisely this topic.
>
> Not sure whether your code will work (infinitely). It will simply hit
> the maximum page execution time set by php.ini on the server - then
> throw an ugly error.
>
> You could extend that time with ini_set() - but I'm not sure whether
> there's a memory or performance hit on a server processing an infinite
> loop. It would also dependon what is actually happeniong iside the
> loop.

True.

I generally run php scripts using wget from a crontab job. In fact I do
that every hour to run remote tests on around 60 sites and have found
it's perfect for the job.

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Andrew @ Rockface
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