PHP Q

[MrPinkPanther]

Unfortuantly I'm not using MySQL but its a nice idea and I think ill do a variation on that

[Excellent2]

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?

[Blob]

What are you using? Flat files?

Or MSSql, Firebird, or that thing cpanel supports that no one ever uses.

[BoyBetterKnow]

Or MSSql, Firebird, or that thing cpanel supports that no one ever uses.

You thinking PostgreSQL or w/e ? I never touched that.

[MrPinkPanther]

XML files well...Plists, which are essentially XML files.

[Protege]

./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.

[Dentafrice]

XML files well...Plists, which are essentially XML files.

I've always wondered why you are doing that, flat files.. and not via database.. why?

[MrPinkPanther]

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.

[Invent]

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...

[Dentafrice]

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.