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Subject: Re: [PHP Guru question]: run php script from within pecl extension
From: Roland.Schwingel@onevision.com (Roland Schwingel)

Hi Sara...

Thanks for your reply...

Sara Golemon schrieb:
>> 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?
I love cron, but I am mainly (85%) on windows with my apps and
want to have a simple and easy setup and not a bunch of 
applications/services to install. There is just the apache service 
bringing in php and my pecl. All other solutions I know are much more 
voluminous and have more errorpoints.

>> 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).
Do you have some example / skeleton stuff for this
or can you give me a pointer on this where to find?

Many thanks in advance,

Roland