window.setTimeout equivalent in PHP?

External Since: Sep 01, 2007 Posts: 5

On Sep 3, 9:19 am, Michael Fesser wrote:
> .oO(Jerry Stuckle)
>
> >Michael Fesser wrote:
> >> .oO(Jerry Stuckle)
>
> >>> OK, you're using the wrong tool for this. PHP is server side, not
> >>> client side, and has no idea what happens at the client.
>
> >> Csaba wrote:
>
> >> | My question was about CLI PHP (Command Line Interface or CLIent side
> >> | php), and not server side processing.
>
> >Yes, I can read, Micha. My comment stands.
>
> The CLI doesn't involve any server. I even use it for shell scripts. Of
> course you can write applications in PHP that don't communicate via HTTP
> with some other. As far as I understand the OP is using PHP for writing
> some kind of Windows application and wants to capture messages sent by
> another app.
>
> Micha

I would suggest starting a while loop with a sleep timeout that checks
something

$myEventHappened = false;
$timeout = 1;

while (true) {
sleep($timeout); // or whatever

/** code to update $myEventHappened **/

if ($myEventHappened) {
/** possibly do something **/

/** maybe change our loop? **/
$timeout = 2;

/** or maybe lets say we exit **/
$myEventHappened = true
}

/** check to see if we should continue **/
if ($myEventHappened) {
break;
}

}

This "might" make sense for you if you're making a client side
("compiled"?) php application for your users.
Of course, I'd take the advice of some people above if you're
programming more client side stuff Smile

-aaron

External Since: Aug 11, 2004 Posts: 1367

Michael Fesser wrote:
> .oO(Jerry Stuckle)
>
>> Michael Fesser wrote:
>>> .oO(Jerry Stuckle)
>>>
>>>> OK, you're using the wrong tool for this. PHP is server side, not
>>>> client side, and has no idea what happens at the client.
>>> Csaba wrote:
>>>
>>> | My question was about CLI PHP (Command Line Interface or CLIent side
>>> | php), and not server side processing.
>>>
>> Yes, I can read, Micha. My comment stands.
>
> The CLI doesn't involve any server. I even use it for shell scripts. Of
> course you can write applications in PHP that don't communicate via HTTP
> with some other. As far as I understand the OP is using PHP for writing
> some kind of Windows application and wants to capture messages sent by
> another app.
>
> Micha

No, it doesn't. But it requires the user to have PHP on the client
machine, and PHP has no security features. This would leave his machine
wide open to anything the PHP script might want to do.

There is no way I would load PHP on my machine because a web site
required it. And no person with any sense would. Additionally, very
few users with no knowledge of PHP are going to load it on their system,
configure it, etc. If they do, they're opening themselves up to all
kinds of problems.

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