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Asked: 2026-05-25T18:43:40+00:00

QUESTION Would it work fine if I use sleep(300); to do a whole day

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QUESTION

Would it work fine if I use sleep(300); to do a whole day (24 hours) in 5-minute gaps?

This means, would set_time_limit (86400); work?

Then I can set my host’s schedule to only be used once every 24 hours.

INFO

I found what I am doing now on this question and am now using it to do something every 5 minutes. It works well and is on time with even the seconds correct. (Talking about the gap between each sleep) – it sleeps 3 times and then gets called again from my host’s-schedular.

I have a scheduled task set up at my host for every 15 minutes, problem is this is not happening every (precise) 15 minutes, but more like 16 and a bit minutes – and after a few hours it is totally out of sync.

If it’s possible to use it to not quit within 24hrs, then I can adjust the sleep in the code to make it execute exactly every 5 mins.

UPDATE

17:17:50 22-09-2011 Check done!
17:34:09 22-09-2011 Check done!
17:47:47 22-09-2011 Check done!

I ran a script that appended to a file the date and “Check done!” – this was without a loop and sleep and that is what I got.

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you use set_time_limit(0);, the code will never time out and run forever unless it exits first. For instance I write programs in PHP in a while(1) { ... } loop. It ran for about two weeks straight (then I had to restart my computer for some unrelated reason).

    Cron is usually accurate though. If your host’s cron is so out of sync, you should contact them and ask about it – that’s not normal.

    EDIT: Also, you might want to consider running it forever and start it manually, then having a cron task that checks if it’s still running, and restart it if it isn’t.

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