Question

I am working on windows. I have built a twitter application using the twitter API which periodically checks for new tweets as well as allows users to update their status. I have written separate PHP files for reading (reader.php) and writing tweets (writer.php). The only problem is how do I periodically read the tweets. There are a few ways which I can think of –

1) Use a time-based job scheduler (like Cron) to periodically run the reader.php.
How do I do this?

2) Use multithreading to run both reader and writer.php and use a timer function in reader.php

Suggestions?

Answer 1

Since you are working within Windows, you probably won’t be able to use cron very easily. You can however, use the task scheduler. See this link for step-by-step instructions.