PHP wait, how to make PHP wait or pause timer?

Friday, 2nd October 2009
by Vader

I have a script that I need to run every 10 seconds. My cronjob time doesn't go to as short an interval as 10 seconds. Someone mentioned I could do a PHP wait or something of the sort to pause it for the ten seconds. Can anyone help me figure out how to make the script wait for x seconds?

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UltraG33k

You can use the sleep() function

http://php.net/sleep

Take a look :]

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Http://dk2.php.net/sleep

Friday, 2nd October 2009

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