Posted by Stan McCann on 02/02/06 00:09

Martin <martinvalley@comcast.net> wrote in
news:hk32u1p7qlo8ruiltb2mma0bo8mo2ammp2@4ax.com:

> 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

No, that would be called a process running on the server. Do you
manage the server? If so, cron can launch scripts that can be run at
intervals that you specify. If not, the server admin might have a
problem with you trying to eat up processing time.

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