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How to run vanilla PHP script every 5 seconds? (only one instance of this script can be run at the time) So ideally run script 5 seconds from the time script stopped last time.
I have my own Ubuntu server.
function update() {
$.ajax({
url: 'update.php', //php
data: "", //the data "caller=name1&&callee=name2"
dataType: 'json', //data format
success: function (data) {
//on receive of reply
var foobar = data[2]; //foobar
$('#verification').html("(<b>" + foobar + "</b>)"); //output to html
}
});
}
$(document).ready(update); // Call on page load
setInterval(update, 5000); //every5 secs
@LoverToHelp But that would required to have this page opened in a browser. I want the server to do it on its own.
You want task scheduling https://laravel.com/docs/9.x/scheduling#main-content
@webrobert No I want vanilla PHP to save server resources.
If you are not using laravel you will need to implement it yourself. You can read the source for this package to see how it can be done https://github.com/spatie/laravel-short-schedule
setup a php script that calls the other one every 5 seconds then use supervisor to make sure it keeps running
@Snapey how do you mean to call other script? Like file_get_content or making 'command line like' execution command? Won't the first script wait for execution of second script?
@MerryChristmas exec or shell_exec https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.shell-exec.php
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