Leaving a remote script running.

PatTheGreat42

Normally, when you acess a PHP file from a web browser, you send a request, and the script does its thing, and then sends an output.

However, is there any way to activate a script on a remote server, and just leave it running? Like, if you wanted (For example) a script that captured a webcam image from another site every five minutes, but just saved the files instead of sending them to you. Is this possible?

Traveller

PHP is not designed to run things like that, but for single runs. A cron job may be more appropriate, since cron's raison d'etre is to run tasks based on a particular schedule. Helios posted an excellent tutorial on how to use cron in the thread, http://www.frihost.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2621.

Also, please take note of the following advice from another thread:

afracsass

how about using iframe tag and javascript to run the remote php script.

just create a hidden iframe and target the iframe src as a url for window.open script method. U can call this script periodically using setInterval method.

Traveller