Timed Events

[andyroid]

So I want my users to be able to schedule an event, log off and for the event to go as scheduled, without any sort of browser input.  Some obvious solutions are Cronjobs or a secondary script to handle the events.. However, I will be altering DB tables, I also want it to potentially support hundreds of queued events.  And not that either of those wouldn't work, I'm still looking for a "more fashionable" alternative.  I'm very familiar with PHP so please let some ideas rip.  Or, if you have any ideas for optimizing either of the afformentioned solutions, let me hear those too.

Thanks,
Andy

[printf]

There are no better alternatives. Only a cron task can execute a task with the least amount of resources and using exact timing. The scripting side, will contain the execution logic, like how many to process during each run and other logic relating to your event handler.