poker tournament in php (cant increase blinds)

[danielrigney]

I am working on a site where you can play a poker tournament on. I am able to play poker on it fine as long as i set the blind levels like so

$SB = 25;
$BB = 50;
 

Then my game actually starts fine and I can change it to whatever I want and it instantly changes on my game.

However, In order to play a proper tournament the blinds must go up in a certain amount of time.

I would like for it to go up every 15 minuets. But every approach I have used in PHP has failed.

My latest test was similar to the following

$timea=date(i);
 
if($timea>=0) && ($timea<=14)
$tablemulti=1;
if(timea>=15) && ($timea<=29)
$tablemulti=2;
if(timea>=30) && ($timea<=44)
$tablemulti=3;
if(timea>=45) && ($timea<=59
$tablemulti=4;
 
$SB= 25*$tablemulti;
$BB= 50*$tablemulti;
 

This approach basically tried to multiply the blinds when the server time hit the time i wanted the blinds to increase and I would have to start the tournament at the beginning of the hour.

This failed and led to my game sitting right before blinds were going to be posted.

I have ran out of ideas for this project and was hoping I could get some advice to help me on this situation.

Any input would be greatly appreciated and if anyone needs any more information let me know.

[pradeepkr13]

While playing game, does this file get executed regularly? Or it is like a daemon?

[kovik]

I can't imagine this being completely PHP-based. I'm assuming that you are using PHP to send information to another medium, correct?

Give us more details on how your client-side application works. Chances are, since you want this to happen based on time, you'll need to do some handling in your client-side application.