Time based php script

Question

Say I want a php script the run the function itstime() every hour. Other than setting up a cron job on the server how can I do this?

Or is this not possible because php scripts need to be opened to be ran?

Thanks.

Answer 1

There's some web services doing this, for example

• http://www.setcronjob.com/
• http://www.webcron.org/

Answer 2

The only other way than to use cron or a webservice that runs cron is to use a workaround; each time the site is loaded by a user, check if it is more than an hour since last time and if it is, run the function. Not very pretty though..

Answer 3

you can write a daemon in php, although it's overkill to cron, you can google for it