need help with crons

[jcrocker801]

cron jobs how to send an event through a cron job . i cant get this to work..we have tried and had no luck it works and does show oon the stats but how can i get it to show as an event

please help

[Dave]

Re: need help with crons

To get it working as an event you would need $ir to be declared in the cron to use the built in event add function... so thats a no no, You will have to do some funky mysql statement which i dont know.

[POG1]

Re: need help with crons

you would need to do a big ass insert into the database.

[Lithium]

Re: need help with crons

 

you would need to do a big ass insert into the database.

really? event_add(user,message,connection) this is a "big ass insert"

[Haunted Dawg]

Re: need help with crons

Technically you would need a big ass insert, this is because, the cron's do not call in the global_func.php. Well on my file and to my knowledge it does not. But i have not messed with mccodes v2 file's for quite some time.

[POG1]

Re: need help with crons

 

you would need to do a big ass insert into the database.

really? event_add(user,message,connection) this is a "big ass insert"

Event add will add it for 1 user..

[Lithium]

Re: need help with crons

better this way?

while (something)

{

event_add(user,message,connection)

}

[POG1]

Re: need help with crons

Think about this;

10,000 users in your database

an event to everyone in the day cron for example

Thats an additional 10k rows into the DB a day before any other events are added.

It would probably be best to add a mod that notifies that the cron has been done instead of adding events.

[Lithium]

Re: need help with crons

 

Think about this;

10,000 users in your database

an event to everyone in the day cron for example

Thats an additional 10k rows into the DB a day before any other events are added.

It would probably be best to add a mod that notifies that the cron has been done instead of adding events.

Well... if you update every single user on your db's at p.e. a situation like this... well you might be right, despite that, those were simply guidelines to make things going. and a mod that notifies the cron has been done... would do exactly the same...

[POG1]

Re: need help with crons

Just add into a separate table and you will only need to update 1 field ;)

[AlabamaHit]

Re: need help with crons

Just

include_once("global_func.php");

and do like Lithium said.

while (something)

{

event_add(user,message,connection)

}

And your done.

If your sending event to eveyone on the game game in a cron. Then obviously you konw that your sending it to 10K peopel if you hav ethat many.