Self Destructing Php Script

[rubing]

Is it possible to make a php file delete itself?

 

I would like to do this since my script is a curl robot being running as a cron job, if its not getting the correct responses, I rather just terminate it.

[dezkit]

yes

[rubing]

So, I should just execute the unlink function with path to itself?

[awpti]

Why not just have the script terminate itself (exit, die()) and write a file that tells it not to fully execute again?

 

pseudocode FTW. (and yes, the backticks will work as long as the directory is writable by the user the cronjob runs as)

 

<?php
if(is_file('/path/to/where/the/php_script/is/do_not_execute') { exit; }

// If it doesn't exit, then run the cronjob.
// insert scripting here

if(something_failed) { `touch /path/to/where/the/php_script/is/do_not_execute` }

[rubing]

God bless your vulcan logic!  That would be even better...how clever.

[rubing]

hmmm... I can just call the php function touch($filename), from within my catch block.