ASync Process in PHP

[mbrown]

I am creating a PHP application that the HOA board will use to do some online voting between the board. That being said I would like to have an async job run every 24 hours at 6:00p.m. that would see what motions users have not voted on and e-mail them to let them know they need to vote on it.

 

Any suggestions would be greatly appreicated

[Jacques1]

cronjob

[mbrown]

Thanks Jacques. Just create the necessary php and let cronjob run it?

[ginerjm]

That's the idea. Although if this will be your first cron task, I suggest you write a script to do all the work while interacting with your console until you have it debugged. Use your email address to prove it out with results info and then eliminate any debugging outputs before setting it up to be a cron job.

 

I use an email to do my debugging of cron tasks. I output all my debug info to a separate message body and then send out the debug email to my address to test my program and watch what it is doing. Once I'm through I disable the debugging email by turning off a switch in the top of the script.

[mbrown]

Thanks.

 

Can you give me an example of the debug message you are speaking of?

[ginerjm]

You simply create an email - plain text is good - that contains the output of what you are trying to do in your script. Show variables as the script works along to ensure that it is doing what you expect. I then send the email to myself at the end.

You can also use your address to send the 'real' output to yourself to ensure that it is sending the correct output. You can also avoid all of this simply by writing an ordinary script that outputs to the client until you get it right. Then you comment our the debugging echo statements and enable the email activity. Use a switch to control the debugging and another switch to control the actual email outputs.

 

Ex.

 

if ($debug)

echo (something to help debug)

..

..

..

if ($debug

echo (something more to help debug)

..

..

..

if ($send_emails)

(call a function to send the production emails)