Re^2: Running a script periodically to update player statistics on a web game.

Unrelated but the $cou+=0 looks a bit dodgy: ++$cou perhaps. I could be wrong as I've no idea what $cou refers to.

Dodgy indeed. He appears to be trying to build an infinite loop to keep the game running forever, but he hasn't yet discovered the

while (1) {
  ...
}
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construct that most of us use. $cou is presumably a generic counter and I'm guessing the +=0 is intentional so that the loop will never terminate.

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Re^3: Running a script periodically to update player statistics on a web game. by kcott (Archbishop) on Nov 02, 2010 at 10:06 UTC
I wondered if it was intended as an infinite loop but AM also seems to want to stop it after 100 iterations. I shall wait patiently for AM to enlighten us. :-) -- Ken	[reply]
Re^4: Running a script periodically to update player statistics on a web game. by Anonymous Monk on Nov 02, 2010 at 18:00 UTC
It was intended as an infinite loop with $cou being a counter. Using a for loop like that is a bad habit from when I started programming. From what you guys said I think I will use cron jobs for my updates since they will affect all players. Thanks for the help.	[reply]