Creating cron on third party server

PHP programming forum. Ask questions or help people concerning PHP code. Don't understand a function? Need help implementing a class? Don't understand a class? Here is where to ask. Remember to do your homework!

Moderator: General Moderators

Post Reply
parka
Forum Commoner
Posts: 52
Joined: Mon Feb 26, 2007 6:48 am

Creating cron on third party server

Post by parka »

Any idea on how to create a cron on a third party web server?

The goal is to allow me to send weekly emails to subscribers.

Or is there a PHP way to code the functionality into the website?

One way I can think of right now is to have a webpage with javascript that will refresh weekly, calling the email_subscribers function.
But that doesn't feel right somehow.

How does free forum boards handle subscriptions via daily/weekly emails?
User avatar
Christopher
Site Administrator
Posts: 13596
Joined: Wed Aug 25, 2004 7:54 pm
Location: New York, NY, US

Re: Creating cron on third party server

Post by Christopher »

Do you have shell access to the server or only FTP access? Have you checked the Control Panel to see of you can schedule scripts to run?
(#10850)
Post Reply