Cron job refresh?

**learning_brain** · 07-21-2010 04:51 PM

I've set up a cron job on a php file, which is reporting as being run correctly...

However, I have a refresh <META HTTP-EQUIV=Refresh CONTENT="1"> normally when browsing manually.

Does this refresh continue after it's first been run as a cron job, or does it stop after one page load, or does it over-write the previous loops?

I don't want thousands of the same php file running as crons!

**misson** · 07-21-2010 05:56 PM

The meta refresh is equivalent to the HTTP Refresh header, which only HTTP user agents pay any attention to. Cron doesn't process HTML and it doesn't load pages, it runs commands. The most processing it ever does with output is e-mail it.

Which loop are you referring to in "over-write the previous loops?" Each time cron runs a job, it's separate from the other runs.

**learning_brain** · 07-21-2010 06:31 PM

Welcome back Misson!

Below is an e-mail report of one cron job

HTML Code:

X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.6
Content-type: text/html

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<META HTTP-EQUIV=Refresh CONTENT="1">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Real Time High Quality Image Crawler.  High Definition Photograph
Crawler</title>
<style type="text/css">
<!--

body {
        font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;
        font-size: 13px;
        color: #EEEEEE;
        background-color: #000000;
}
-->
</style>
</head>

<body>

<p><a href='index.php'>Home</a></p>


<!-- ******************************************* CRAWL FOR IMAGES
************************************************-->
        
        
            <hr/><a target = 'blank'
href='http://www.lbpcentral.com/forums/search.php?do%3Dfinduser%26userid%3D9236%26contenttype%3DvBForum_Post%26showposts%3D1'>http://www.lbpcentral.com/forums/search.php?do%3Dfinduser%26userid%3D9236%26contenttype%3DvBForum_Post%26showposts%3D1</a>
is being tested.<br/>URL is an html page.  Crawling  for images.<hr/>| |
| | | | <hr/>Page crawl complete at : 22/07/2010 00:27:01    
        <!--*************************************************** END IMAGE CRAWL
****************************************-->
</body>
</html>

Which means it looks like it has processed the php correctly

The "loop" I was referring to was the loop of the refresh only, which is limitless, but if cron doesn't process the html, it won't refresh internally so my (* * * * *) setting should run it once every minute then die.

Am I right?