I'm afraid you've got truly limited options, as that is *exactly* what cron jobs and scheduled tasks are meant for. If you don't have permissions to set up a scheduled task, I would consider speaking in a very sweet voice to your server admin and have them set one up for you. You'll find that chocolate chip cookies are quite well received. Or you could set an alarm to go off every half hour then go refresh the page with the script on it. Speaking of... If you've got a computer with an always on connection at home, you could set something up to refresh the page for you every half hour. -- Joe > i forgot this script has a prob > "Maximum execution time of 60 seconds exceeded" > mine needs to execute continuously for about a week. (file.php will > run once now, again after nearly half an hour, and again after half an > hour and so on) > > On 10/07/2008, kranthi117@xxxxxxxxx <kranthi117@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> yeh thanks >> >> On 10/06/2008, LuCiaNo - CeTre <web@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> <?php >>> >>> //some php script >>> >>> sleep(1); >>> include("file.php"); >>> >>> //where sleep(1) is a one second to wait before call file.php >>> >>> ?> >>> >>> Is this ? >>> >>> >>> kranthi wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> i am currently executing a php script a.php. the script a.php should >>>> call >>>> itself after 'n' number of seconds. here 'n' is a variable number of >>>> seconds. please suggest me a method to do this... >>>> >>>> also please note that i dont have access to 'cron jobs' on my web >>>> server. >>>> >>>> Kranthi. >>>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Kranthi. >> > > > -- > Kranthi. >