Hi all
I am using Zend framework for my PHP project. Basically I have few actions that I want to run automatically. I will be using a cron job to do the trick. The cron job will run a php script file.
Till now everything seems normal. Now I have created a table in my database and have stored the actions that I need to run in it. For example I need to do the following:
1-Create a sample file (5 times).
2-Upload all sample files (1 time).
3-send mail (continuous).
So I will store in my table the controller and action for (creating a sample file) and set its repeating time to 5 and set also its execution time. The same will be done for the other two actions.
Now the script file is run every minute. In the script file I will select all records that from the table that have an execution time equal to the current time then run them.
Now to make things just clear this system actually works but I was thinking about a better or improved scheduler techniques. Storing the scheduled actions in a table sound like a good idea but I was wondering if there was a superior approach ?!
This seems fine to me. You’re using a cron job to run a PHP script which selects matching records to be executed from a database table. Storing data, as long as it’s in a normalised form in the database, will be an efficient way. Monitor the load on your server and adjust from there if you need to.