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  • Steve Edwards
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    Sending Weekly E-Mail Automatically

    I maintain a site for an athletic club, and on it I have a form that people
    can submit that requests a free guest pass. The form contents are sent to
    an address at the club, and then the club contacts the person to make an
    appointment. The club would like to start logging the requests and then get
    weekly updates sent to them via e-mail of all the guest pass requests
    submitted. Logging the requests and creating the e-mail with all the
    requests is easy enough. What I would like to know is if it possible to
    have the e-mail created and sent automatically on a weekly basis without any
    interaction from the user. I've looked through the PHP and MySQL manuals
    and didn't see any type of reference to this.

    Thanks.

    Steve


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    • adams
      #2
      Re: Sending Weekly E-Mail Automatically

      try crontab

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      news:I4ubb.5428 33$o%2.240026@s ccrnsc02 ¤¤¼¶¼g...[color=blue]
      > I maintain a site for an athletic club, and on it I have a form that[/color]
      people[color=blue]
      > can submit that requests a free guest pass. The form contents are sent to
      > an address at the club, and then the club contacts the person to make an
      > appointment. The club would like to start logging the requests and then[/color]
      get[color=blue]
      > weekly updates sent to them via e-mail of all the guest pass requests
      > submitted. Logging the requests and creating the e-mail with all the
      > requests is easy enough. What I would like to know is if it possible to
      > have the e-mail created and sent automatically on a weekly basis without[/color]
      any[color=blue]
      > interaction from the user. I've looked through the PHP and MySQL manuals
      > and didn't see any type of reference to this.
      >
      > Thanks.
      >
      > Steve
      >
      >[/color]


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        • Randell D.
          #3
          Re: Sending Weekly E-Mail Automatically


          "Steve Edwards" <s.edwards@comc ast.net> wrote in message
          news:I4ubb.5428 33$o%2.240026@s ccrnsc02...[color=blue]
          > I maintain a site for an athletic club, and on it I have a form that[/color]
          people[color=blue]
          > can submit that requests a free guest pass. The form contents are sent to
          > an address at the club, and then the club contacts the person to make an
          > appointment. The club would like to start logging the requests and then[/color]
          get[color=blue]
          > weekly updates sent to them via e-mail of all the guest pass requests
          > submitted. Logging the requests and creating the e-mail with all the
          > requests is easy enough. What I would like to know is if it possible to
          > have the e-mail created and sent automatically on a weekly basis without[/color]
          any[color=blue]
          > interaction from the user. I've looked through the PHP and MySQL manuals
          > and didn't see any type of reference to this.
          >
          > Thanks.
          >
          > Steve
          >[/color]
          If you have a Unix/Linux box, you could use cron or crontab... this is a
          linux/unix utility, not a PHP or MySQL utility.

          If you don't have this, or don't have access to it, you won't be able to do
          it without some user intervention... . or at least, not anything near
          reliable...


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            • BKDotCom
              #4
              Re: Sending Weekly E-Mail Automatically

              Ugh... there's always window's (task) scheduler

              "Randell D." <you.can.email. me.at.randelld@ yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<jTJbb.101 2204$ro6.197420 15@news2.calgar y.shaw.ca>...[color=blue]
              > "Steve Edwards" <s.edwards@comc ast.net> wrote in message
              > news:I4ubb.5428 33$o%2.240026@s ccrnsc02...[color=green]
              > > I maintain a site for an athletic club, and on it I have a form that[/color]
              > people[color=green]
              > > can submit that requests a free guest pass. The form contents are sent to
              > > an address at the club, and then the club contacts the person to make an
              > > appointment. The club would like to start logging the requests and then[/color]
              > get[color=green]
              > > weekly updates sent to them via e-mail of all the guest pass requests
              > > submitted. Logging the requests and creating the e-mail with all the
              > > requests is easy enough. What I would like to know is if it possible to
              > > have the e-mail created and sent automatically on a weekly basis without[/color]
              > any[color=green]
              > > interaction from the user. I've looked through the PHP and MySQL manuals
              > > and didn't see any type of reference to this.
              > >
              > > Thanks.
              > >
              > > Steve
              > >[/color]
              > If you have a Unix/Linux box, you could use cron or crontab... this is a
              > linux/unix utility, not a PHP or MySQL utility.
              >
              > If you don't have this, or don't have access to it, you won't be able to do
              > it without some user intervention... . or at least, not anything near
              > reliable...[/color]

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