date function

mayo0 — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 14:47:27 +0000

in the above example you will also want to consider amending a value in a database or a file so it only runs once.

using date function

mayo0 — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 09:24:16 +0000

I had a similar problem where my web host did not give me much choice of when I could run a Cron job.
The way I got around it was to use the date function to run a script at certain hours e.g see below

$cronTime = date("H"); // lets say the hour is 8

if ($cronTime ==
{
// run a script
}

this is only going to help you if you receive traffic every hour though or you could change the code to suit your needs or traffic.

Thanks Kirk