I'm new to server-side programming and running a server in general, and I'm using xampp. I have a hellp.php file in the htdocs directory of xampp, and that's how I run my PHP code. However what I'm looking for, is to have some PHP code execute in the background of my server (not on a webpage). I'm looking for a sort of php application that just runs in the background and does stuff whenever the server starts up.
For example, in this case I want to retrieve some data from Facebook's Graph (a list of conversations from a facebook page) every X seconds and store it in a SQL database somewhere. How can I accomplish this?
