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Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 11:47:20 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PHP Guru question]: run php script from within pecl extension
From: pollita@php.net ("Sara Golemon")

> For several reasons I need to call a php script every x minutes.
> I need that on several platforms so I started to write a pecl
> extension that implements something like a cron service.
>
Why not cron then?

> Obviously I miss something in initing php, because php
> crashes in main/streams/streams.c function php_stream_locate_url_wrapper() 
> when I call php_execute_script()
>
Correct.  You're not in a request (you're probably not even in an 
identifiable/unique thread context).  Both are fixable by spinning up a 
context at thread startup and either (A) wrapping a request 
activate/deactivate around that timer, or (B) wrapping the 
activate/deactivate just inside your thread context (giving you a 
single-uberlong-running request).

> because the variable
> 'wrapper_hash' inited at the very beginning in that
> function appears to become a bad value.
>
Which tells me that both of the issues above are relevant.

But coming back to the first question:  What's wrong with cron?

-Sara