Question

I need to write a php script which runs every hour,

so, in my database i have 7 tables which represents the days of week like sunday, monday, tuesday etc, and all the tables have 25 columns which represents 24hours like 1am, 2am, 3am etc and a timestamp column.

so, now i have to write a php script which uses cron to run this script every hour.

Answer 1

Use the php date() function to get current date information in various format without needing to use DB.

Here is the link to the PHP manual.

http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

Some examples straight from linked PHP manual page.

<?php
// set the default timezone to use. Available since PHP 5.1
date_default_timezone_set('UTC');


// Prints something like: Monday
echo date("l");

// Prints something like: Monday 8th of August 2005 03:12:46 PM
echo date('l jS \of F Y h:i:s A');

// Prints: July 1, 2000 is on a Saturday
echo "July 1, 2000 is on a " . date("l", mktime(0, 0, 0, 7, 1, 2000));

/* use the constants in the format parameter */
// prints something like: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 15:12:46 UTC
echo date(DATE_RFC822);

// prints something like: 2000-07-01T00:00:00+00:00
echo date(DATE_ATOM, mktime(0, 0, 0, 7, 1, 2000));
?>