JADASDesigner Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 I have a text log that stores IP addresses for a poll, but I want to dump it everynight at midnight, and start fresh. I have been doing it manually for about two weeks. Is there a way it can be done automatically? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/136010-solved-automatically-erasing-a-log-at-midnight-everynight/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
premiso Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 A cron job. If on linux, if not a scheduled task which would run a script that dumps them. Googling cron job will get you the results. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/136010-solved-automatically-erasing-a-log-at-midnight-everynight/#findComment-709130 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yesideez Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 You can run a cron job. Not particularly easy to get running (still cause me headaches even now) but they're definitely the way to go to have a script or scripts run at regular intervals. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/136010-solved-automatically-erasing-a-log-at-midnight-everynight/#findComment-709131 Share on other sites More sharing options...
haku Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 If you don't want to use a chronjob, you can create a column that stores a date. Then store the date of the most recent time at which the IP table was cleared. Then everytime someone accesses the site, check that date. If it's still the same day, then do nothing. If it's from the day before, clear the IP table, and replace the old time with the current time. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/136010-solved-automatically-erasing-a-log-at-midnight-everynight/#findComment-709148 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JADASDesigner Posted December 8, 2008 Author Share Posted December 8, 2008 I had the nutty notion to use scheduled task on my computer to open a saved favorite that happens to be the script to wipe the log. SWEET! Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/136010-solved-automatically-erasing-a-log-at-midnight-everynight/#findComment-709159 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JADASDesigner Posted December 8, 2008 Author Share Posted December 8, 2008 BTW if anyone looks at this post in the future I would HIGHLY recommend making the PHP file that does it some random named document. Not something stupid like erase.php Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/136010-solved-automatically-erasing-a-log-at-midnight-everynight/#findComment-709160 Share on other sites More sharing options...
premiso Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 Or you could set a GET variable and make it trigger if that get variable isset and is equal to what it should be. For the actual value I would make an md5 hash of something. That way it could be erase.php but without that variable it will not run. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/136010-solved-automatically-erasing-a-log-at-midnight-everynight/#findComment-709162 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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