WPEngineer.com: Use WordPress Cron
This new post from the WPEngineer site gives you a few tips on using the event scheduling (cron) that the default WordPress installation already has built in. WordPress has its own cron to...
View ArticleAbhinav Singh's Blog: How to use locks in PHP cron jobs to avoid cron overlaps
In this new post from Abhinav Singh on how to use file locking to keep your cron jobs from trying to use the same resources. Cron jobs are hidden building blocks for most of the websites. They are...
View ArticleVinu Thomas' Blog: Fixing the "Missed Schedule" problem in Wordpress
Vinu Thomas has posted a tip for WordPress users working with scheduled posts and the "Missing Status" status that's caused by a bug in WordPress. Ever since the upgrade to Wordpress 2.9, I've been...
View ArticleAdam Jensen's Blog: Cron tasks in Zend Framework apps
In this new post to his blog Adam Jensen looks at creating cron jobs with the help of the Zend Framework without having to load up the entire MVC architecture to get there. So, we're going to need a...
View ArticleSitePoint.com: Scheduling Tasks in WordPress: a Plugin Developer's Guide
On SitePoint.com there's a new tutorial posted in their "PHP & MySQL tutorials" section about using a feature of WordPress that some might not know about but can be extremely handy when you need...
View ArticleJustin Carmony's Blog: PHP Workers with Redis & Solo
In this latest post to his blog Justin Carmony shares some of his experience using Redis and Solo to asynchronously run queries and return data without the user having to wait. Sometimes there are...
View ArticlePHPMaster.com: How I Faked Scheduled Database Dumps Without Cron
On PHPMaster.com today there's a new tutorial about a way to simulate cron jobs to dump the contents of a database with a simple script that fires off based on the last login time of a certain user...
View ArticleMichael Dowling's Blog: Cron Expression Parsing in PHP
Michael Dowling has shared a new tool on his blog today - a parser for crontab files that can be used directly from within PHP - cron-expression. When faced with the task of creating the cron...
View ArticlePHPBuilder.com: My Automated PHP Scripts for Creating FTP Connections to a...
PHPBuilder.com has posted a new tutorial about creating automated FTP scripts to pull down information from a remote server (using FTP streams). In 2007 I began working on a website project for an...
View ArticleDevShed.com: PHP: Best Methods for Running Scheduled Jobs
On DevShed.com today there's a new article posted looking at methods for running scheduled jobs based on responses to this forum post. I have a webpage form that requires a date and time to be...
View ArticleMatthew Weier O'Phinney: Deployment with Zend Server (Part 2 of 8)
Matthew Weier O'Phinney has posted the second part of his series with some tips around application deployment with Zend Server. In this latest post he shares his second tip related to recurring jobs....
View Article
