> I'm not using this for any database related function. What I'm trying
to
> do is come up with a method for scheduling processes needed for our
> company that are run through command line php scripts. I'll be using
cron
> or to run a command that will check the date within the file and see
if
> the process needs to be run on that day and then rewrite the date + 28
> days back into the file spawning the process if need be. To the best
of my
> knowledge cron cannot run schedules this way. It can only run on
specific
> days or times outlined directly. Our processes must run every 28 days,
not
> a specific day of the month. If there is any other scheduling system
out
> there that can do this type of thing on Linux/Unix I'd much rather use
it
> than doing it this way.
Sorry, I though I read database in there somewhere.
I don't know of another program. As long as you write a unix timestamp
or some date format that can be parsed by strtotime(), then you can do
it this way. Use fopen()/fread() to get the last time saved in the file.
If you're using unix timestamps, just see if the current time is greater
than the old timestamp + 28 days...
If(time() < $old_timestamp + 60*60*24*28)
{ //run script and save new time(); }
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