Alternative to crons

[hallsofvallhalla]

Thought I would post some alternatives in case your web host does not support them

1. If you have a PC that stays on most of the time you can schedule it to open a browser and load a page however often you need it to. Just make sure to use a get variable for a password. example yourwebpage.com?cronpassword=343443423423434234234
then put a get method
if($_get['cronpassword'] == 343443423423434234234)
{
do script
}

2. Set a check on every login page. If time()= whatever time then do script. then set a table crons, that record when they went off. That way you are not doing the same one every time someone logs in. Or for every 10th person per hour that logins in do script.

3. find a friend with a web host that has crons and just use theirs to run your script from your web host.


if anyone has any others please share.

[Chris]

4. Buy webhosting with crontab XD.

[hallsofvallhalla]

haha yeah well that works too but some people use free sites that do not support them.

[hallsofvallhalla]

Deluxxmanx found this site

http://cronless.com/

[OldRod]

I saw on another page about using an "on view" instead of a cron... I can't come up with the link at the moment, but has anyone messed with them at all?

[Falken]

Another way to make crons quite secure is if you got a static IP you can allow the page to run only if it was accessed from the correct IP.

[Torniquet]

http://buildingbrowsergames.com/2008/07 ... d-of-cron/

like oldrod said

[OldRod]

http://buildingbrowsergames.com/2008/07 ... d-of-cron/

like oldrod said

Oh, yeah, that's where I saw it

[MAruz]

I got a link from the support team at one.com regarding crons: http://www.webcron.org/ Though they charge for their services it isn't much. If you still don't want to pay I'd go for http://cronless.com/ as Deluxxmanx suggested if it suit your needs (which is up to 2x cron jobs per day for free, no hourly crons for free with this service in other words!).