Ravanol Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 Hi all, I have a system where I need to send thousands of small text files to a webserver - all day, every day using HTTP POST (cURL). I have decided to take the load away from my database and store each XML document within a directory on the server - open file, http post file, delete file. Read file, http post file, delete file.... I wish for this to happen constantly. I could use a php script - running an infinite loop to "get next file" - read, http post, delete.... but I have a gut feeling that this would be a bad idea because: 1) If a script is in an infinite loop - would there be a huge performance impact on the rest of the scripts running on the server? 2) If I close my web browser - the script will terminate? So.. what is the best thing to do? a) Should I have a CRON job that calls the PHP script every minute (with a max execution time of say 55 seconds)? b) Should I run the php script containing an infinite loop from the command line (which I understand will keep running because it has not been called by a client browser)? if so, how would I terminate the script? Do you guys have any other ideas? Many thanks, AM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teng84 Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 this is cron job.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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