creating schedule task without Cron job

Question

Scheduled task needs to be created but its not possible to use Cron job (there is a warning from hosting provider that \"running the cron Job more than once within a 45-minu

Answer 1

if you have shell access you could execute a php script via the shell

something like this would be an endless loop, that would sleep 60 seconds execute, collect garbage and repeat until the end of time.

while(true) {
    sleep(60);
    //script here


    //end your script
}

or you could do a "poor mans cron" with ajax or meta refresh. i've done it before. basically, you just place a redirect with either javascript or html's meta refresh at the beggining of your script. access this script from your browser, and just leave it open. it'll refresh every 60 seconds, just like a cronjob.

yet another alternative to a cronjob, would be a bash script such as:

#!/bin/bash
while :

do
sleep 60
 wget http://127.0.0.1/path/to/cronjob.php -O Temp --delete-after

done

all this being said, you probably will get caught by the host and get terminated anyway.

So your best solution:

go and sign up for a 5-10 dollar a month vps, and say good bye to shared hosting and hello to running your own little server.

if you do this, you can even stop using crappy php and use facebook's hhvm instead and enjoy its awesome performance.