[php_newbie]

Hi,

I have been trying to use the Cron Daemon to run a php script using lynx. Everything works except for one problem.

The php script I've got runs in stages i.e after stage 1, the page is redirected to stage 2 and so on until the processing is over. There are also a few refresh commands in there achieved by means of javascript.

The script works perfectly from a browser but from the Crond interface using lynx, it gets stuck as the first stage and cannot redirect and carry on the processing.

Is there any solution to this problem?

Any feedback will be much appreciated.

Thanks.

[Ice_Metal]

have you thought about using the sleep() function in php to try and to the same thing as the java script. theres 2 methods in php code to do this. Either sleep() or unsleep()
sleep ( The Time you want in seconds );
unsleep ( The Time You Want in milliseconds );

That should do the trick... and theres fuctions are already a php predefined function.

[php_newbie]

Hi Ice_Metal,

Thanks for the feedback.

I'm not sure I used the right technical words but what I mean by "redirect" is this.

Code:

echo "<META HTTP-EQUIV=\"refresh\" content=\"0;URL=nextstage\">";

So it seems that the script stops here and cannot go to the next stage and do further processing. I will try to use the PHP header() function and see if I have more success with that one.

As far as the javascript part is concerned, this is yet another problem because I don't know if either lynx or wget can execute javascript. Actually, the task of the javascipt in this script is to refresh/reload the page - so I don't think the sleep()/unsleep() functions applies here.

If you find anything new, please do post it here. I think it could interest a lot of people to know how to do this because processing in stages is a way to 'counter' the problem of maximum execution time on servers.