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[mikey1090]

Hi, i was wondering if someone could show me a php script - a loop of some sort that would be run by a cronjob each minute, and would include a php file, before sleep(10); (pausing for 10 secs)


Can anyone help me?

[Elliot A]

Why do you need to require a file every 10 seconds? If you meant download then:

PHP Code:

<?php

while ( true ) 
{
    file_get_contents ( FILEHERE );

    sleep ( 10 );
}

?>

[bigfan]

PHP Code:

$num_1oops = 10;
$inc_file = 'included.file';
$sleep_time = 10;
 
for ($i = 0; $i < $num_1oops; $i++) {
    require $inc_file;
    sleep($sleep_time);
} 


[mikey1090]

thanks, but i was wondering about include_once, as when i previously tried require, it produced errors as functions in my config file were being required twice.

[bigfan]

Do you mean you want to include_once, every ten seconds? Wouldn't it have been easy to say that in your first post?

[mikey1090]

yeah sorry about that. i want it to run my php file each 10 seonds, for ever. i will run the loop file in a cronjob each minute