[Typo3-dev] Typo3 alternative to cron (?)

[Peter Russ]

Suman Debnath schrieb:

> I don't want to use cron cuz then the extension becomes dependent on an 
> external condition which may or may not be present at the point of 
> implementation. Ideally all that is required for the extension to work 
> should be contained in the extension code itself. I initially thought 
> about including the code in ext_localconf, but what if the site is not 
> visited during a whole day and that is the day the mail has to be sent 
> out ?
> 
> What we are trying to do:
> We are assigning some tasks like page update responsibility (not related 
> to workflow) to certain BE users and would like to send out a mail when 
> a page is nearing update. So we need to check which pages are nearing 
> update and then send a mail to the people responsible for the page/s. 
> That should be the case even if the site gets no visitors/users.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Suman Debnath
IMHO you have to trigger it some how:
1) Solution would be to create a daemon. But you mentioned you don't 
want to "depend on external" conditions
2) External trigger, i.e. a server wget or lynx the url periodically as 
you have no way to do it activily from your server without cron.

Regs. Peter.