awesome, thanks alot for that bit of info there.
thing is overall since im new to most of the things im doing here, i want to keep away from 3rd party as much as possible so i can learn as much as possible.
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Assuming there is a module out there that does what you want to do, you can learn a lot by just reading the source code. That should show you how to do it.
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im just trying to compair for example,
user triggers event at 12:00am, script then refuses another request till say maybe 12:01am
(preferably without halting the entire script because that would more than likely cause the bot to ping out)
i have been messing with using just time() to compair but as i said before *noobish at this*.
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time() returns the number of seconds since the epoch. When your function is called check if the value from time() is greater than the previous stored value + 60 seconds. If there is no previous value 0|undef + 60 will certainly be less than time() returns.
your problem may be more with deciding which data structure you want to use to store these time stamps for each user. A global hash keyed on user name would be the simplest if a little cludgy.
Cheers,
R.
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you know, that is pretty much exactly what i was thinking, and i tested a method like that locally on my pc.. *with nice results*
the only problem is with how i did it in testing, which was a continuous while loop, this increased my cpu usage from 3-5% to 60%.
but i figure this has to do with the loop right? also im on windows testing before i move to the shell. *dont wanna make the provider angry lol*
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