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Kilandor
#16188 18.08.2009 18:34
Nowadays creating a cron is as simple as choosing options from a few select boxes on cpanel and such.

I can assure you that any sort of cron that works based off user's accessing a website is not good and does not always work correctly.

It very easily can run multiple times, I know this for a fact of how we used to run my Ticket/Revision bot, it was using a hook, that was time based and often was executed multiple times, even implementing a file locking method it was still getting ran multiple times. So no such solution can work perfect, and duplicate exectuions will happen.

As well as most typical users won't need a cron period anyways.