Planned (timed) tasks implemented in PHP

Sometimes in order to adjust the interface regularly, the program needs to run automatically. From the Internet, there are two ways to achieve this: 1. ignore_user_abort() The ignore_user_abort() function is combined with set_time_limit(0) and sleep($interval) to realize the automatic running and updating of the program.

//Even if the Client is disconnected (such as closing the browser), the PHP script can continue to execute.
ignore_user_abort();
//The execution time is unlimited. The default execution time of PHP is 30 seconds. By set_time_limit(0) allows the program to execute without limit
set_time_limit(0);
// Run every 5 minutes
$interval=60*5;
do{
$url = “http://www.xxx. con";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 2);
$result = curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close($ch);
// Wait for 5 minutes
sleep($interval);
}while(true);

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