Cron/scheduled Tasks
Im running my site on a web server, and want to add something so that every hour the variable $gold = $gold*($workers*3.1) +($banks*30); and the way to do this is cron jobs from what ive gathered from searching google. BUT not only haven't i found a good tutorial, but I haven't found a single example taht isn't with CGI or a download.
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