PHP run file automatically every 5 minutes without page load

Question

Hi i want to run my php file every 5 minutes without page load using ajax. also so content based on fromtime to totime

require_once("config.php");
$sql = "SELECT * FROM schedule where status='1'";
$result = $conn->query($sql);
if ($result->num_rows > 0) {
    while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
        echo "Content: " . $row["content"] . "<br />";
        echo "Content: " . $row["fromtime"] . "<br />";     
        echo $date = time();
        $test = strtotime($row["fromtime"]);
        echo "<br />";          
        echo $test;
        if ($date > $test) {
            echo "Success";
        }
        else {
            echo "Fail";
        }

    }
} else {
    echo "0 results";
}
$conn->close();

Answer 1

Assuming you have server access you'll need to set up a crontab . For every 5 mins it'll be

*/5 * * * * php /path/to/php/script.php

Noticed updated for Ajax. Use this solution if you want to run it without the page being open.

Also noticed you want to parse variables, php does support that and parsing them in is like so:

*/5 * * * * php /path/to/php/script.php var1 var2