hello,
I am having a wee problem, and I am sure there is a more convenient/simpler way to achieve the solution, but all searches are throw in up a blanks at the moment !
I have a mysql db that is regularly updated by php page [ via a cron job ] this adds or deletes entries as appropriate.
My issue is that I also need to check if any details [ie the phone number or similar] for the entry have changed, but doing this at every call is not possible [ not only does is seem to me to be overkill, but I am restricted by a 3rd party api call limit] Plus this is not critical info.
So I was thinking it might be best to just check one entry per page call, and iterate through the rows/entires with each successive page call.
What would be the best way of doing this, ie keeping track of which entry/row in the table that the should be checked next?
I have 2 ideas of how to implement this:
1 ) The id of current row could be save to a file on the server [ surely not the best way]
2) an extra boolean field [check] is add to the table, set to True on the first entry and false to all other.
Then on each page call it;
finds 'where check = TRUE'
runs the update check on this row,
'set check = FALSE'
'set [the next row] check = TRUE'
Si this the best way to do this, or does anyone have any better sugestion ?
thanks in advance !
.k
PS sorry about the title
