yea... if no one hits the website for hours then only a few updates will occur.
you could however write a very small javascript to call on a php script every hour. "Skate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > i take it scripts are being called over and over right? if so then add > a > > time function to one of those scripts. when gameplay starts load the time > to > > mysql (or a file) and then everytime the script is run check the time to > see > > if the time has exceeded 60 minuets, if it has run you php script to load > > the data to mysql. > > > the trouble with this is what if no-one hits the page for several hours? > will it run 3-4 updates at once, or just the one? > > i'm guessing what your actually after is cron. you'd be running it on a *nix > box for this, but you get cron to run the script every hour. > > i'm guessing your making some kind of ticker? similar to that in > www.planetarion.com ? it's a fairly easy thing to do, and if you do a search > for planetarion clones, you'll find exactly what your looking for. > > don't have a script that runs permanently tho, please. huge waste of > resources, and you've also got the problems of timeouts, and how to restart > a script if it crashes. > > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
