Timer in PHP

Timer

[balimiusha]

Hello All, is there anything like Timer function in PHP, as there's in VB. What I want is, I want to call a function(or display time) at intervals say for every 10 secs.

Thanks

[dcrombie]

PHP is a server-side language. That means that any functions on your page are ONLY called at the time the page is requested from the server.

[kazonik]

can you be a little more specific please?

do you want your script to run at a certain time? say every $x minutes? If this is what your after you probably want to use something like "cron"

or

do you want to call the script from you browser and do something every $x seconds? If you want to send info to the browser at a set interval you could try something like..

<?
while( $x < 5)
{
sleep(10); #10 is the number of seconds to wait
echo 'the time is ';
echo date("Y-m-d h:i s");
$x++;
}
?>

[shrirch]

PHP is not a message based language, so windows type timer calls which normally result in a windows message being queued up don't work.

If you're looking for a pause and resume type function look at

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