Re: [PHP] Schedule an Event with PHP

2004-01-16 Thread Jason Wong
On Friday 16 January 2004 23:25, Alex Pilson wrote: > BTW. I didn't get what Stuart said about replying to an existing > thread, did something screw up when I sent to the list? He means: You have started a new thread by taking an existing posting and replying to it while you changed the subject.

Re: [PHP] Schedule an Event with PHP

2004-01-16 Thread Alex Pilson
At 9:44 AM -0500 1/16/04, John W. Holmes wrote: Alex Pilson wrote: Say I want a MySQL database to have a table that holds certain events, the Event table. And in the event table, one of the records is an event that has a startdate of today, I want to check against that date, if it equals now, th

Re: [PHP] Schedule an Event with PHP

2004-01-16 Thread Richard Davey
Hello Alex, Friday, January 16, 2004, 2:36:45 PM, you wrote: AP> Besides using CRON to hit that particular event table, is there any AP> other method I am not thinking of that can be used with PHP? I want AP> to check that event table every 5 minutes. Use cron. There are several other ways, but

Re: [PHP] Schedule an Event with PHP

2004-01-16 Thread John W. Holmes
Alex Pilson wrote: Say I want a MySQL database to have a table that holds certain events, the Event table. And in the event table, one of the records is an event that has a startdate of today, I want to check against that date, if it equals now, then do this Besides using CRON to hit that p

Re: [PHP] Schedule an Event with PHP

2004-01-16 Thread Stuart
Alex Pilson wrote: Say I want a MySQL database to have a table that holds certain events, the Event table. And in the event table, one of the records is an event that has a startdate of today, I want to check against that date, if it equals now, then do this Besides using CRON to hit that p