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 can include your script and have it run every time some one visits your homepage/login page etc... set up a table in mysql called time. query the database everytime the page is visited. if (time argument) {run the script in the background, update the new time in the DB}

All you have to do is fuigure out how often you want to send out your sms emails. Ex. 1 time per day database row "time" has a date in it. the date is lets say 24 hours ago. if the db row "time" is less than or equal to today minus one day 1 day , then run your script. this will run your script once per day.

The draw back -> someone needs to visit your site atleast once per day.

What is your website URL? What are you doing?