Restrictive timer

cvanmeer · Post by **cvanmeer** » Thu May 13, 2004 1:51 pm

Hi all,

I have a question.

I have this command that will retrieve a certain server status from a webpage and report it on the channel.

But what I want is to put a restrictive timer on it, so the command (!status) can only be used once every one minute. And if someone triggers the command within that minute it will get a response like: Sorry, this command is blocked for $remainingtime.

Could someone please help me?
I've searched the forum but couldn't find what I was looking for.

Thx

Chrizz

strikelight · Post by **strikelight** » Thu May 13, 2004 2:07 pm

Set a variable to a unix timestamp when the command is called, and check against that variable when the user performs the command again...

for example....

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# there are 60 seconds in a minute, thus the < 60 ...
if {[info exists ourtimestamp] && [expr {[clock seconds] - $ourtimestamp}] < 60} {
  # command was already called less than a minute ago ...
} else {
  # command has not been called for atleast a minute ...
  set ourtimestamp [clock seconds]
}

cvanmeer · Post by **cvanmeer** » Fri May 14, 2004 3:39 pm

Thx for your reply.

I've tried to implement your example, but it seems it doesn't work.
It seems to skip the first part and go right into the second part, not checking for the 60 seconds.

I've tried some stuff, but it didn't work out for me...

Any ideas how to fix it?

gr.

Chris

strikelight · Post by **strikelight** » Fri May 14, 2004 5:55 pm

you need to make your variable globally declared within whatever procedure you are invoking the code in...

cvanmeer · Post by **cvanmeer** » Sun May 16, 2004 5:33 am

thx..that did the trick

I owe you one

Chrizz