Run part of script every other day, no cron jobs

Hiccup

I wrote a simple licensing script that will have one part encoded in the users files and the other part sitting on my server. I have the users script calling my script everytime they run the script on their server. (This works fine.)

However, I don't want it to check the license every time they run the script as this will hammer my server and it's just not necessary. So, I'm wondering how I can have their script run every other day instead of every time the script runs by them. (That's why I can't do a cron job as it's not on my server.)

I can set the base date to whatever I want and encode that so they can't see it, but I'm now scratching my head.

Any ideas?

dagon

few ideas:

if it has file\db storage then you can log when its last checked to decide when its next time to check

run it only if called with in certain miunte say '1' so check when its called if its minute '1' no matter the hour -or some other time-date thingey, not reliable, as you cant be sure what time it will be called

rand - only run it when you generate a range you decide, so it could have a 1 in 10 chance of being checked

sdjensen

Just an idea.

Why not create a script running on your local pc and then call the script on the remote server by a url call. ex. [URL="http://<removeserver>/myupdatescript.php"]http://<removeserver>/myupdatescript.php[/URL]

if you are running on a windows machine then you can automate this process to run each hour or each day by using the "scheduled tasks"...