Is there any way to automatically run PHP script on Hosting web server withour cron?

Question

I had a script which sends sms alerts everyday. I want it to send automatically send sms by fetching message from database. Can I do it without cron. Is there any other solu

Answer 1

You have a couple of options:

• Emulate cron behavior: In your php code, check if the page was loaded at, or close to, the time you wish to schedule the sendout for, if the messages havent been sent yet, load the script that sends the messages in the background and flag them as sent.

• As others have suggested, setup a cronjob somewhere else that will execute a script on your server by fetching the url via http (by using wget for example)