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Asked: 2026-05-24T13:13:40+00:00

I’m trying to create a PHP script which pulls xml data (text and images)

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I’m trying to create a PHP script which pulls xml data (text and images) from a remote server and inserts it in a local database. I need to run this script every 10 minutes or so (and overwrite the existing data in my db)… if I don’t get a response from the server after about a minute, I would like the request to abort until the next time the script runs 10 minutes later. Can anyone please either give me some idea as to how I can achieve this or point me to a tutorial that explains it in fairly simple terms?

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EDIT: I’m looking for help with the PHP script itself, not sure that was clear in my initial post.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can create a run of the mill curl script that connects to a remote server and fetches data, inserts into your db, set limits and exceptions. Then create an entry in crontab to run this script every 10 minutes. I have a similar setup running for one of my website which fetches data from stock exchange and updates a local cache, another script has the task of consuming the cache as and when required.

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