Posted by Martin on 02/01/06 21:50

Is it possible to have a PHP script that runs continuously - by itself
- independent of serving out any pages? Perhaps I could have one page
start it running and another one stop it? (the script would be
updating a local MySQL database).

I want to simulate a non-web-based process. This process interacts
with the "real world". For the simulation, I need something to pretend
it's the "real world". I'm thinking that this free running script
could create/update entries in a database that web pages could then
interact with.

Possible?

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