I am looking for a code that do an event at spesified time at day!

[The SNiper]

Hi All
The matter is that I have a counter at my site, stores the values at a text file, and I want to reset this counter automatically to zero every day at a specified time, lets say at 6 pm, so any body have ideas how to do that?

Regards

[penagate]

cron on 'nix, Scheduled Task on Win.

[The SNiper]

what?

I couden't understood that
Is there a full code or an article speaking about this please?

[penagate]

Are you using Windows or Linux?

[The SNiper]

It is a Linux server.
but... hmmm
Do I need to contact the server administrator to do this for me?!!

[The SNiper]

ok, I was thinking how do they program the script that show you how many vistors where at your website every day, is this may help me at what I want?

[penagate]

To execute a program at a specified time either regularly or once off on Linux, use a cron job. You can usually configure these using CPanel or DirectAdmin or whatever administrative interface your host provides for you.

Visitor counting doesn't require a cron job, just a database.

[The SNiper]

No, what I meant is the script which counts the vistors of a site every day, and it reset at the end of the day to start again at the next day from zero, you think we can use it here in some way?

[penagate]

It doesn't "reset". The total for each day is incremented every time someone visits during that day, and queried each time you run the script. When the clock ticks over to the next day, the script simply saves to a different database record.

[The SNiper]

hmmm, this is nice, it may be helpful...
Can you help and give me such script? I mean if you've faced it at some place, but to be simple so I can understand how it works and try to use it in some how.
And all thanks for begin patient with me all this time, and even you don't like me, I like you

[penagate]

You may not like me any more when I say: no.

There are plenty of tutorials on the net that cover using databases with PHP. You probably have MySQL installed. Figure out how to use that and actual script logic should be simple.

[The SNiper]

Ok you won, I don't like you

I'll continue searching, and I'll see if my control panel give me the ability to schedule using this cron

Thank you very much, you where helpful really (F)

[superbovine]

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