PHP - Moved: Curdate(), Interval 1day) Not Working :(

I am coding a browser game in php/mysql. the economy code needs to run at a regular interval. How can I get my code to run say, every 6/12/24 minutes? I heard of something called a cron job, but im not sure if it is going to be what I need.

So I have a php script in public_html on my apache server, and it runs a global economy code for my browser game.
If I open firefox and go to:
http://localhost/Economy.php
it runs the code, and it changes all the values in the database properly.
How do I get that to run automatically, say every 6 minutes?

I have windows so no cron jobs.
I went to task scheduler and created a task which I thought would work, and it lists the task as running.
But it gives me an error.

Event Views:
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Log Name:      Microsoft-Windows-TaskScheduler/Operational
Source:        Microsoft-Windows-TaskScheduler
Date:          9/28/2011 5:02:37 PM
Event ID:      101
Task Category: Task Start Failed
Level:         Error
Keywords:      (1)
User:          SYSTEM
Computer:      Matt-PC
Description:
Task Scheduler failed to start "\Economy" task for user "Matt-PC\Matt". Additional Data: Error Value: 2147750687.Event Xml:
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<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
  <System>
    <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-TaskScheduler" Guid="{DE7B24EA-73C8-4A09-985D-5BDADCFA9017}" />
    <EventID>101</EventID>
    <Version>0</Version>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>101</Task>
    <Opcode>101</Opcode>
    <Keywords>0x8000000000000001</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2011-09-28T22:02:37.967669800Z" />
    <EventRecordID>18</EventRecordID>
    <Correlation />
    <Execution ProcessID="1012" ThreadID="1484" />
    <Channel>Microsoft-Windows-TaskScheduler/Operational</Channel>
    <Computer>Matt-PC</Computer>
    <Security UserID="S-1-5-18" />
  </System>
  <EventData Name="TaskStartFailedEvent">
    <Data Name="TaskName">\Economy</Data>
    <Data Name="UserContext">Matt-PC\Matt</Data>
    <Data Name="ResultCode">2147750687</Data>
  </EventData>
</Event>
EDITed for code tags

Hey,

I'm not that familiar with PHP so maybe what I'm asking for is not even possible. I plan to establish a webserver that is connected to a RS232 device. I don't have any problems accessing  the RS232 interface with a PHP-script, it's all working fine.

Now I want the incoming data from the device being display on the servers webpage almost in realtime. When I say almost I mean that the client who is logged on to the website should be able to define the update rate of the incoming data.

So here comes the problem, I need something like the java script setinterval() function that is working on the server-side and repeats the data request to the device in an infinite loop with the given time interval.
I don't want to refresh the whole page as I will have to update about 20 sets of data within seconds!

I found this code:
http://phpclasses.chimit.nl/package/5544-PHP-Call-a-function-after-a-period-of-time.html
it looks pretty promissing but I just can't make it working...

As I said I'm a PHP-noob so I just put the code below on the start of my own code and provided the Timer.class.php file in my project folder. Could anyone explain how I could make the test function repeating endlessly on a 1sec basis using this code so I would get a screen full of "called"? So far I only get two "called" :-)

Thanks!


declare(ticks=100);
function test ()
{
    print "<br>called";
}
require_once 'Timers.class.php';
setTimeout('test', 110000000);
setInterval('test', 10000000);

Hi all.

In my database, i have a column recurring which is derived from a multiple option

form field with values: Weekly, Bi-Monthly, Monthly, Quarterly, Half Yearly and

Yearly. I want to have as next due the current date plus the recurring value. eg

current date = 2014-11-24
recurring = monthly
next due = current date + recurring (in the next due will be 2014-12-24)

so i did:

$stmt = $pdo->query("SELECT recurring, due_date FROM $table");
while($row = $stmt->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC)) {
    $recur = $row['recurring'];
    $date_due = $row['due_date'];
}
$weekly = "Weekly";
$bi_monthly = "Bi-Monthly";
$monthly = "Monthly";
$quarterly = "Quarterly";
$half_yearly = "Half Yearly";
$yearly = "Yearly";

if(strcmp($recur, $weekly) == 0){
    $recurs = "7 DAY";
}elseif(strcmp($recur, $bi_monthly) == 0){
    $recurs = "14 DAY";
}elseif(strcmp($recur, $monthly) == 0){
    $recurs = "1 MONTH";
}elseif(strcmp($recur, $quarterly) == 0){
    $recurs = "3 MONTH";
}elseif(strcmp($recur, $half_yearly) == 0){
    $recurs = "6 MONTH";
}elseif(strcmp($recur, $yearly) == 0){
    $recurs = "1 YEAR";
}

$stmt = $pdo->query("SELECT ADDDATE('$date_due', INTERVAL $recurs) as nex_due FROM

$table");
$row = $stmt->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);
$nex_due = $row['nex_due'];


$stmt = $pdo->prepare("SELECT * FROM $table ORDER BY trans_id DESC");
$stmt->execute();
$num_rows = $stmt->rowCount();
    
while($row = $stmt->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC)) {
    // Print out the contents of each row into a table
echo "<tr><td>";
echo $row['trans_ref'];
echo "</td><td>";
echo $row['acct_num'];
echo "</td><td>";
echo ucwords($row['payee']);
echo "</td><td>";
echo ucwords($row['company']);
echo "</td><td>";
echo $row['acct_no'];
echo "</td><td>";
echo number_format($row['amt'],2);
echo "</td><td>";
echo $row['purpose'];
echo "</td><td>";
echo $row['recurring'];
echo "</td><td>";
echo $row['due_date'];
echo "</td><td>";
echo $nex_due;
echo "</td><td>";
echo "<strong>".$row['status']."</strong>";
echo "</td><td>";
echo "<strong>".$row['pay_status']."</strong>";
echo "</td><td>";
}

The problem is that it's giving me as next due the value of the first row even

when the recurring is different!

Does any one know how to run PHP script automatically at specific time interval in my local machine. I am using Windows 7. What about using the Task scheduler ? Please write to me in details how to give the path of the php page in Task Scheduler.