Heya,

I've got a site which is tied into the client's point of sale system in their retail garden center. Every 20 mins or so the point of sale system places a .csv on the webserver, and when i use mysql import to import the file, everything works lovely. Here's the problem: the client wants the inventory on the site current every time the csv is uploaded. My server admin won't allow me to run more than one CRON job a day, so I'm kinda stuck. Any ideas how I can get this inventory automatically updated every 20 minutes?

thanks,
-e

I know this isn't the answer you're looking for but I had to say something... Your server admin won't allow more than 1 cron-job per day? Find a new server admin!

You might find a PERL solution that works from the system clock but most PHP solutions are going to require a page/script hit which leaves you dependant on someone or something.

Jim Webster
http://www.idevdirect.com/