Is it wise to use PHP for a daemon?

Question

I wish to create a background process and I have been told these are usually written in C or something of that sort. I have recently found out PHP can be used to create a da

Answer 1

A cron job and a little bit of bash scripting should be everything you need by the sounds of it. You can do things like:

$file=`mysqlquery -h server < "select file from table;"`
ffmpeg $file -fps 50 output.a etc.

so bash would be easier to write, port and maintain IMHO than to use PHP.