[wp-hackers] wp_schedule_event being triggered multiple times

[Andrew Ferguson]

You were right Callum, the email is not being deleted. Anybody have any
ideas why?

On 2/26/07, Andrew Ferguson <andrew at fergcorp.com> wrote:
>
> I actually took a look at the mySQL entry to see if I could figure out
> when the emails were being posted. As it turns out, the post does get it's
> time stamp from the email.
>
> On 2/26/07, Callum Macdonald <lists.automattic.com at callum-macdonald.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hey Andrew,
> >
> > I'll precede this suggestion by saying I'm not an expert... :)
> >
> > Does the post get its timestamp from the date on the email? Could it be
> > that the email is being posted multiple times, once per hour, and not
> > being deleted or not recorded that it has already been posted? If you
> > check the site just after the hourly cron job, and it's been posted 12
> > times, then obviously this is not the case!
> >
> > Good luck,
> >
> >
> > Callum.
> >
> > Andrew Ferguson wrote:
> > > I'm working on a plugin that uses uses the inbuilt cron system to
> > > check for
> > > Blogs by email.
> > >
> > > I'm having an issue where emails are posted several times over. For
> > > example,
> > > I would send an email to the account specified. The plugin would
> > > perform its
> > > hourly check, I would check the site later and I would see multiple
> > > (somewhere between 1-12) posts of the email, each with same time
> > > stamp. My
> > > best guess is that multiple hits are occurring at the moment the
> > cron'd
> > > event should be triggered. This causes the the event to execute
> > multiple
> > > times before some setting is updated to prevent further executions for
> >
> > > this
> > > round (i.e. prevent it from executing this hour). Like I said, my best
> > > guess.
> > >
> > > Here's the code (being released under GPL):
> > >
> > > function fergcorp_checkEmailPosts(){
> > >
> > >     $handle = fopen(get_bloginfo('wpurl')."/wp-mail.php", "r");
> > >     fclose($handle);
> > >
> > > }
> > >
> > > add_action('fergcorp_checkEmailPosts_hook', 'fergcorp_checkEmailPosts'
> > );
> > >
> > > if (!wp_next_scheduled('fergcorp_checkEmailPosts_hook')) {
> > >     wp_schedule_event( time(), 'hourly',
> > > 'fergcorp_checkEmailPosts_hook' );
> > > }
> > >
> > >
> > > Any ideas?
> > >
> > > -Andrew Ferguson
> > > http://www.andrewferguson.net
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