Board Optimization - vB AJAX Cron

vB AJAX Cron From vBModder.com

This is such a small but useful mod that I decided to give it away free. This mod will replace your sheduled task image code at the bottom of your pages and run your sheduled tasks via an AJAX call.

AJAX is asyncronous and offers true background running of sheduled tasks. This does not change anything with the actual tasks or the scripts that run them. It merely replaces the method that initiates the running of those scripts.

There are no template edits of any kind. Simply upload the files to your forumhome directory and import the product xml file.

This should work in any vb or custom script in any directory.
Full support will only be given at vbmodder.com

I will support it here as time permits.


Enjoy

Don't forget to click install if you use it.




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Do not use this with vb 3.5x! There is a difference in the cron table.
The 3.5x version can be found here

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[Tralala]

/clicks install

Elegant, seamless and smart. The best kind of mod.

[Tralala]

Originally Posted by redlabour

What are we talking about?

0,00001 seconds ?

It depends on the size of your site, and the specific cron that's running at the time...

I have quite a few cron jobs scheduled, one being a nightly backup, and when those kick in, I can tell the site feels sluggish when loading pages. This mod fixes that.

[cash7c3]

would this be possible to utilize a cron task to repair databases and restart the mysql service?

[cash7c3]

Originally Posted by Tralala

It depends on the size of your site, and the specific cron that's running at the time...

I have quite a few cron jobs scheduled, one being a nightly backup, and when those kick in, I can tell the site feels sluggish when loading pages. This mod fixes that.

nightly backup for a accounts on my server? is this really possible with ajax? would you mind telling me more on how you have that working?

[Tralala]

Originally Posted by cash7c3

nightly backup for a accounts on my server? is this really possible with ajax? would you mind telling me more on how you have that working?

To clarify, it's possible with cron... this mod though initiates those (cron) sheduled tasks via an asyncronous AJAX call, allowing them to run in the background.

As far as how to get the nightly backup cron going in the first place, there are quite a few solutions... search and read and pick the one you like best... here are a few I've seen:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=126925
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=105599
http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/mysqlscript.htm
http://www.vbhackers.com/f76/automat...3/index13.html

[cash7c3]

thanks

[Xoligy]

Wouldn't simpler method be to have window.stop at the bottom of your footer and then have ignore_user_abort(true); in the PHP file? For MSIE you could just evoke the escape key (27)

This will (in theory) effectively stop the page from continuing to load, but the php script will ignore the request and continue processing until it has finished.

Just an idea.

[ultimo]

Ok this mod doesnt work on 3.6.5. Any more support for this mod? I have followed all instructions but the scheduled tasks are not running...

[mhc1576]

It works without any problem in 3.6.5

[ultimo]

Hmm I followed all the instructions. Funny thing is the original cron seems to be still working. Schedueld tasks runs when i load the forum page, but does not run when its not loaded. Any thoughts about something i am missing?

I uploaded the files to my forum directory, that is correct no?