Unfortuantly I'm not using MySQL but its a nice idea and I think ill do a variation on that ;)
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Unfortuantly I'm not using MySQL but its a nice idea and I think ill do a variation on that ;)
What are you using? Flat files?Quote:
Originally Posted by FlyDuo
Or MSSql, Firebird, or that thing cpanel supports that no one ever uses.Quote:
Originally Posted by Excellent2
You thinking PostgreSQL or w/e ? I never touched that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Blob
XML files well...Plists, which are essentially XML files.
./online/username.txt
inside file, timestamp of last refresh basically
to check, open username.txt, check against time() with the timestamp recorded, and wala. You have jewbears thingy, its easy... really.
I've always wondered why you are doing that, flat files.. and not via database.. why?Quote:
Originally Posted by FlyDuo
Ok, I'm really confused.
So I have all of these files in www.URL.com/<yourusername>/<yourusername>.plist
If <yourusername>.plist hasn't been updated in 12 seconds then I want to POST <yourusername> to removeUser.php. How would I go about doing this?
There are many users that I'd have to do it for so I'm not sure how to do it in cron jobs.
Why are you using plists? Why not use something like MySQL? It'd make the solution a lot easier...Quote:
Originally Posted by FlyDuo
I'm wondering the same thing.. it's just going to be a lot of lag time and overhead if many users start to use it.
You can setup "virtual" plist files, and return the database results in XML format, if you're so dedicated to using XML, but still having the functionality, speed, and versatility of a database behind it..
I think that'd be a whole lot better solution.