Hey guys, I made a server status script, basically it checks if a game server is online or not.
and it works and all, but I need a little help.

I want it to check it every 3 minutes, not when some1 loads the page.
So basically, I want the script to check the server every 3 minutes to tell if its online or not.
Maybe this can be done with javascript and php?

thanks guys
martin

If you want it running every 3 minutes regardless of the user. Meaning, regardless if a user is loading a page or not, if you want to update the status... Why not save a txt file or use a mysql database and run a cron job every 3 minutes to update that file/db.

Then you can setup a javascript loop to check the contents of the file as often as you want... Each time a page is loaded or more.

Ya, thats what I was thinking at first.
Basically get the status, store in a text file, then call the text file.

But...I thought there would an easier way.

Cron jobs are simple. Create a cron job that runs your script you have allredy made every 3 minutes.

As suggested I would run the cron job every 3 minutes which will either create an entry in a file.

Then when the user loads the page, you can read the contents of the file to see what the status of the network is. This you can setup to run as often as you want using javascript or something.

I wouldn't run the script every three minutes when the user is on the site or i'm sure it would cause some huge problems if there were a lot of users on the site at any given time.