PHP execute script in real time

Hello everybody,

I have got a question. I have a script in php and I want to execute something at a fixed time in the future, not by cron server.
Let me explain more. I would create a car in a game, but for this I have to wait around 10 minutes. Ok, now I used time() and I set it up like this: time()+600. I am testing if time() is equal or greater than that time stored in database. If I do like this I have to refresh the page after 10 minutes to add the car. I don't want to do this anymore, I want to do it automatically after 10 minutes.
What should I use for this?

Thanks,
Daniel Rosca

 

Cron is by far the preferred way, just run a script every x often, which then runs the required queries, really not that hard.

Thinking of some alternatives could be... (wouldn't recommend.)

/* At top of script */
ob_implicit_flush(true);
ignore_user_abort();
set_time_limit(0);

/** Script here **/

/* At end */
sleep(600);
do_query($query);
exit(); // Could probably remove this, depends on your script.

PHP:

Still, I wouldn't recommend it, but there's no reason why it shouldn't work.

 

I heard something about javascript counter, but I really don't know something about javascript.

 

Could just use a javascript refresh set to 600 seconds, pretty poor substitute for cron though.

 

if you want to refresh the page after 10 minutes then use this html inside php

add this code in u r php file in header!

<?php 
echo "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"600\" />";
//600 for 10 minutes 
?>

PHP:

 

Do you want to run it once after 10 minutes or every 10 minutes?

 

I don't have a fixed time. I solved the problem with JS.