在没有Windows任务计划程序的Windows中执行PHP脚本的好方法

Question

I am creating a web app that requires a job scheduling function for intranet on a Windows server running Apache/PHP/MySQL. For now, we have been executing perl and PHP via .bat files using the built in Windows task scheduler. I would like the scheduling function to be more tightly embedded into the app and not have to utilize the Windows task scheduler. I am considering having a program written that would run as a service to manage the execution of the jobs (service would look at the jobs which would be defined and stored in a MySQL database).

Can anyone speak to this approach and recommend best way to accomplish this?

Answer 1

In my opinion there is no real good solution to this. I have done in the past as you have and written a service to manage these sorts of cron jobs but to be honest, I ended up writing the required task not in PHP but in C or C++ as it worked out faster in the actual service itself... thus decoupling app and regular task even more. Even on Linux you would put the task in as a cronjob which is the same deal as task scheduler.

The best approach I have come up with ? I actually had my PHP script (using exec) create the scheduled task so that when I deployed to a new server it happened automatically and was sort of (read very slightly) coupled with the app. And it involved no compiled code either... keeping with the scripted nature of PHP.