Posted by Martin on 02/02/06 03:28

On 1 Feb 2006 15:09:42 -0700, Stan McCann <me@stanmccann.us> wrote:

>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.
That's kind of what I figured :(

>Do you manage the server?
No - this would be on a web hosting service's hardware.

> 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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