file_get_contents at certain time

[kevin87]

Hi Everyone,

 

I have an interesting question that I have had a hard time searching for so I thought I would throw it on here to see if you guys could help. I am currently using the following to load a file to $html using 

$html = file_get_contents("text.txt");

Is there a way to have this file load at a certain time of the day. For example, it loads the file at 8PM every day?

 

Thanks,

Kevin 

[requinix]

Probably, but your question doesn't make sense. Load into what? What is changing and how does that affect what you're doing with $html? It sounds like the problem you're trying to solve may be much simpler than you think it is.

[kevin87]

Yeah sorry it is a little confusing maybe I can ask it a little better. Lets say my text.txt file is changing constantly and I have users visiting my page consistently I only want my $html variable to get the contents from text.txt at 8PM. The reason for this is because the file is changing all the time and I want to get the info exactly at 8PM. Does that make more sense?

[kevin87]

well now after I wrote all of that I think maybe I should just do a copy of the file on my linux server to a different file at 8PM every day. That would probably be a whole lot easy then doing something crazy with php. 

Edited January 29, 2014 by kevin87

[Mace]

Try setting a cronjob. That's a scheduled action on your server.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron