Need Cron Suggestion

[AN-net]

I want to use cron to update select information on my board a select day of the week. my problem is that the source i use to update that information only allows 10 results at a time and 1-2 second delay between each query. What I want to do is be able to do the entire table at intervals of 10. how would i do this?

sorta like when you run update user titles script where u can choose how many users to update in a cycle

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Just put a:

PHP Code:

sleep(NUMBEROFSECONDS); 


in your script to pause a few seconds between each request.

[AN-net]

k but how would i like make it split everything into pages without having the url change into scirpt.php?page=xx or is that how i should do it?

[AN-net]

ok still awaiting an answer if its ok to use redirect with vb cron...

[Marco van Herwaarden]

No i think, and on second thought my suggestion to use a sleep is also not a good one.

Best would be to keep somehow track of progress, and just continue where you left each time the job is run.

[AN-net]

drrss, well i dont want to create a billion cron jobs if say i have 1,000 things to update>_> any other suggestions...

[AN-net]

just bumping to see if there any more suggestions

[AN-net]

bumping up again for suggestions please

[Paul M]

Sorry, I don't really understand what you are trying to do.

[AN-net]

im trying to design a script that will grab x items from a table then contact a web service to get updated information on those x amount items. the problem is that the web service only allows 1 query per x seconds and can only return 10 items per query but i want to do the entire table which has 200+ items. so that is my problem...