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

Go for it. I had to do it once also. Like others said, it's not ideal but it'll get-er-done. Using Windows, right? Good.

If you only need it to run occasionally (Once per hour, etc). Make a new shortcut to your firefox, place it somewhere relevant. Open up the properties for the shortcut, change "Target" to:

"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" http://localhost/path/to/script.php

Go to Control Panel>Scheduled Tasks Point your new scheduled task at the shortcut.

If you need it to run constantly or pseudo-constantly, you'll need to spice the script up a bit.

Start your script with

set_time_limit(0);
ob_implicit_flush(true);

If the script uses a loop (like while) you have to clear the buffer:

$i=0;
while($i