Question

I am writing a task which will be ran by as a Cron Job. I want the function to check if a file has been downloaded to the server yet. The time stamp check is fine, however what is the best way to make the check loop run every 15 minutes? Could I use sleep and then check the current time stamp againsed the time stamp I want the loop to terminate (5am)?

Cheers.

Answer 1

This is what cron does. Crontab allows you to set an interval to run a script. It is easy to specify 15 minute intervals. This way you won’t have to worry about sleeping or error recovery or anything in your php script, just your logic.

http://www.electrictoolbox.com/run-cron-command-every-15-minutes/