Is there any way to automatically run PHP script on Hosting web server withour cron?

Question

I had a script which sends sms alerts everyday. I want it to send automatically send sms by fetching message from database. Can I do it without cron. Is there any other solution. Plz help

Answer 1

Have an outside AppEngine cron job sheduler: Use google AppEngine, it's free. The outside "task" can then "callback" a PHP script of yours.

I fail to see what's wrong with using the local cron on your machine though aside from it being blocked for you to access.

Answer 2

You can use a webcron service to trigger your script.