Real Time Update and Mail With PHP

Question

I'm guessing the title is kinda missleading but I'll just ask, let me explain the situation first:

I'm making an auctions website, and I have a countdown that shows the time that an auction has left, when the time is over I use ajax to call a php page that runs a script that updates a row in a mysql table and sends an Email telling the auction is over, now this is working fine, but I want it to work always. It should always check if an auction is over not when the user enters the page, but I don't know how to make this possible, the countdown is in jquery and I don't know how to be always checking if an auction is over to send the email and update the row.

Thank you, if you can help me, I didn't paste any code because I don't think it's necessary but if you need some let me know.

`setTimeout()` ? You can call the method that checks for countdown for say every 'timeinterval' you want. — Sandeep Nayak, Dec 10 '13 at 12:49
yes but i need it to always be exexuting and always cheking ..not when someone is on the page — Gustavo Sanchez, Dec 10 '13 at 12:53

score 1 · Answer 1 · 2013-12-10T13:17:59.917

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For Updating and mailing for expire a auction on offline you should have try to Cron Jobs.

And For javascript solution you can try this

    var myVar = setInterval(function(){myTimer()},1000);

function myTimer()
{
var d = new Date();
var t = d.toLocaleTimeString();
document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML=t;
}

function myStopFunction()
{
clearInterval(myVar);
}

edited Dec 10 '13 at 13:17

answered Dec 10 '13 at 12:49

For more about interval in javascript you can check [this](http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/met_win_clearinterval.asp) – Dec 10 '13 at 13:18

Sandeep Nayak · Answer 2 · 2013-12-10T12:59:59.617

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Try this:

var timer = setInterval('checkTimer()','Time Interval in milliseconds');
function checkTimer(){
   // code to check timer. If timer has ended clear the timer variable
}

edited Dec 10 '13 at 12:59

answered Dec 10 '13 at 12:53

Sandeep Nayak

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Yes, again, the problem is not knowing when the timer ends, the problem is always checking in server, i know js is local, what i want is WITHOUT the page open..check if the times ended and sending and email – Gustavo Sanchez Dec 10 '13 at 13:01

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