I need a quidance for automated task

[halex]

Hello guys,

I want to send e-mail greeting to users that have birthday today (they registered and entered their birtday). And I want that task to perform automaticaly everyday in some time. It is important to tell that my ISP administrator doesn't allow me any CRON (or similar) scheduler services, so I must somehow override that. I have one idea... Every day, first user who come to my website will be some sort of "victim" because he will be used to do automated tasks (sending mail everyday or deleting old adverts). User will not know that of course and after that I will set daily flag in my DB (in some table) that this task doesn't need to perform anymore this day.
It is not so elegant solution. Do you have some better idea? Is it possible to some automated task without my intervention and without any operating system task scheduler (CRON, etc...).

Thanks

[dalecosp]

Originally posted by halex
Hello guys,

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It is not so elegant solution. Do you have some better idea? Is it possible to some automated task without my intervention and without any operating system task scheduler (CRON, etc...).

No it's not elegant, but it might work....it's the only thing I've ever thought of, except cron. I guess if you do have a machine somewhere that has cron available to you, you could have it be the first user....

Disclaimer: I'm basically just an idiot who is fortunate enough to be smarter than his clients in this field.

dalecosp