How can you do a cron job with php without creating a cron Job on the server cron software
Is that even possible ?
EDIT
as I added in a comment I’ve seen a script called piwik who does that kind of stuff, e.g. Sends emails without any cron job
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I think the best you could do is make a cron job that periodically checks a file X for cron jobs and runs them. Then all you would have to do is add jobs to X instead of to cron.