Cron?

[Aexoden]

I know early on I saw some talk about including an event system and a cron system. Later on, I saw some reservations about whether the systems would make it in or not. At this point, all we can really do is wait and see.

[Techie-Micheal]

Yeah, it's a maybe right now from what psoTFX has said on area51 and in #phpBB, so we'll see.

[libertate]

I would prefer such feature to be left outside of phpBB 2.2

My biggest concern is with locking files aspecially on a very busy board.

How would you deal with a log purging process where there are 10 to 20 simultanious users are connected?

[libertate]

I would prefer such feature to be left outside of phpBB 2.2

My biggest concern is with locking files aspecially on a very busy board.

Locking issue - How would you deal with a log purging process where there are 10 to 20 simultanious users are connected? I am sure this is not an issue while under an SQL server, since there are record locking, but how about some other features, say text file modifications, image file adjustments, etc.?

Time required/Timing issue - For example a cron to replace all acronyms of phBB with a link under it, within all messages. Clearly such a functionality would be awesome! But what if you have thousands of messages? The server would attempt, in essence perform a search, then an update on each found record while within the "page loading" process for that specific user. So there is the time and timing issue also.

My final concern Security - If a privilaged process is running on just any users log in, or page load/refresh there is the chance of code injection. Yes, it's not the simplest method, but the possibility is there, and the probability is higher with a privilaged cron process initiated by a generic user.

Otherwise, it's a great idea!

(poop - darn edit lock function locked while editing the message!)

[Techie-Micheal]

As for the security, it will not actually be editing crontab ...