Question

I have 3 questions that will greatly help me with my project that I am stuck on, after much narrowing down these are the resulted questions arised from solutions:

1. Can I use one php file to change a variable value in another php file, can these values be read also from one php file to another?

2. How can I use crob job to change variable values within my php code?

3. Lastly, can cron read variable values in my php files??? for Example, if statements that will decide what to trigger and how to trigger when cron time comes?

I am a little new at cron and going deeper into php and need all the exeprtise help. I cant use any CURL or frameworks.

Please prevent the hijacking of my topic, the data I want is simple change $variable=1 in filenameA.php to $variable=2 using filenameB.php

Answer 1

This is not a very good practice, but it’s the simplest thing you can do:

You need three files: my_script.php, my_cron_job.php, and my_data.txt.

In the script that control’s $data (this is called my_cron_job.php):

<?php
  $values = array(
              "some_key" => "some_value",
              "anything" => "you want"
              );

  file_put_contents("my_data.txt",serialize($values));

Running it will also create my_data.txt.

Then, in my_script.php:

<?php     
  $data = unserialize(file_get_contents("my_data.txt"));
  print_r($data);   //if you want to look at what you've got.