Pseudo-cron

"a finding"

[henry0]

Harry Fuecks well known PHP writer
suggests for those that have difficulties in accessing “cron” to utilize “pseudo-cron”.
I D-loaded it as a zip; it seems quite straightforward and easy to use.

As usually with a cron job one is responsible for the php scripts that contains the cron-job to be performed.
Also Harry recommends that if in your php.ini setting “short_open_tag” is off to edit the pseudo-cron files and make short tags: <? The full <?php initial tag.

If you are interested in D-loading it (it is free under the GPL)
[bitfolge.de...]
(I did left the URL as is so you can see the address)
It is clean I scanned both the zip and unzipped files

So the question before out of curiosity I give it a try is:
Has anyone tried it?

Regards

Henry

[coopster]

I've never used it but it is a neat little piece of work. Only thing is, to be effective and truly replace a job scheduler like cron, your site needs to have continuous activity and then upon every request this script is going to run.
Seems like some serious overhead if you have a busy site ;)