Question

I do not have access to cron jobs as I am on a shared server. I would still like to run an update task on my database at set intervals. How can I best achieve this. Obviously I could check the time in which index.php is executed and if it is on the hour I could include my update script. But then there is a risk of the script not executing (no users request a page at that second) or many executions.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Are you sure you don’t have access to cron?

crontab -e

You just might…

Edit:
Also, Please don’t attach an update script to index.php at one poor user’s expense every hour…