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

This isn't the best answer as it still requires cron somewhere, but you could always setup another machine that does have cron, like your home computer for instance, to hit a page on your site which triggers the action (using a library like curl or wget).