How to make the worker continuously run in PHP - Heroku? - php

Question

I am creating a php application which inserts the record in the DB for every 10 - 20 automatically in heroku to achieve that i had created a proc file and i'm using worker inside that . While deploying the application in the heroku there is found out while running the worker I am new to this heroku and PHP. Can any one help me on what this mean and how can i resolve it and make the worker run continuously to insert the record in the Database.
This is line in my proc file contains which is under root of the project
worker: php /app/worker/db_worker.php
My db_worker.php:
<?php
include_once "./db_config.php";
$conn = $connection;
$number_1 = rand(1,50);
$number_2 = rand(60,500);
$insertQuery = "INSERT INTO random_numbers (num_1, num_2) VALUES ('".$number_1."', '".$number_2."')";
$result = mysqli_query($GLOBALS['conn'], $insertQuery);
if($result) {
echo 'Details saved';
} else {
echo 'Failed to save details';
}
?>

Answer 1

The simplest solution would be to run your operations in a loop. For example,
<?php
while (true) {
// assume this can be included repeatedly
include_once "./db_config.php";
$conn = $connection;
$number_1 = rand(1,50);
$number_2 = rand(60,500);
$insertQuery = "INSERT INTO random_numbers (num_1, num_2) VALUES ('".$number_1."', '".$number_2."')";
$result = mysqli_query($GLOBALS['conn'], $insertQuery);
if($result) {
echo 'Details saved';
} else {
echo 'Failed to save details';
}
// recommend to do some memory clean up
// ...
// wait for 5 seconds
sleep(5);
}
But there's a problem. PHP is not considered memory safe. There can be memory leak issue(s) running it for really long time. If this didn't work well, you might simply do this as a static script with the help of scheduler services like cron-job.org.