[SOLVED] Cron job... without cron job

[Ninjakreborn]

Is there a way to run a cron job without the ability to run a cron job.

For instance if you are making an application, and you have a lot of system stuff that need's to be ran.  Can you setup something with just htaccess to run a cron, or have something else that you do that will run a cron.

Or is there a third party company (business) where you can sign up for a free account and register cron's there, and it would actually run the php scripts within those intervals, and since it's an external source doing it, you are guaranteed it'll work because it can be done with any server.

Something.

[trq]

Can you setup something with just htaccess to run a cron, or have something else that you do that will run a cron.

 

Cron needs to be run through crontab, if your server has cron installed (all Linux systems do) and you have access you can use it. there isn't really another way of running a cron job.

 

I have heard of services such as the one you describe existing, Id'e try googling.

[jitesh]

For windows server you need to create a .bat file and for linux you need to create .cron file.

 

http://www.scrounge.org/linux/cron.html

[Ninjakreborn]

Cron Tab, thanks.  I will also check into other services that do that, it would be nice if they had a free service somewhere and you could create an account and login.  Then register crons.  They could have like a security feature where you have to insert a meta tag into the site so they know you own it or have access to it.  Then you would sign up for an account and register whatever sites to get crons sent to whatever page.  That would be cool.