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Originally Posted by RelaX
You could also do it in an evil way, by making PHP and your visitors do your work for you.
You simply makes something that keeps track of the updates and every time a visitor comes on your site, it checks if it's monday or thursday (or if a monday or thursday has gone by without an update). If that is true, you can have it update your site.
A cron would be a much better solution though.
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Yeah this is a pretty good solution if your site gets moderate to low amounts of traffic. Since the software would be updated
before the triggering request is fulfilled, clients can be somewhat guaranteed that what they're viewing is at most 3-4 days old.