automatic scheduled e-mails

[David Hickman]

Hi all,

I have a website that I am building in PHP that I would like to send e-mails
to users every 2 days to inform of new updates. I know how to trigger the
sending of e-mails if a user enters the site, and can limit this to only
happening once every 2 days, but I am interested to know if it is possible
to have PHP send e-mails automatically in case no one visits the site?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Many Thanks,
David

[Andy Hassall]

Re: automatic scheduled e-mails

On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 19:47:28 +0000 (UTC), "David Hickman" <no.spam@please .com>
wrote:
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>I have a website that I am building in PHP that I would like to send e-mails
>to users every 2 days to inform of new updates. I know how to trigger the
>sending of e-mails if a user enters the site, and can limit this to only
>happening once every 2 days, but I am interested to know if it is possible
>to have PHP send e-mails automatically in case no one visits the site?
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated.[/color]

For Unix, look at cron.
For Windows, look at Task Scheduler.

Use these to periodically run a script through the command-line version of
PHP.

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[Martin C. Petersen]

Re: automatic scheduled e-mails

> Use these to periodically run a script through the command-line version
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> PHP.[/color]
Or use wget to fetch the script that does the work..


Martin

[Default User]

Re: automatic scheduled e-mails



David Hickman wrote:[color=blue]
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have a website that I am building in PHP that I would like to send e-mails
> to users every 2 days to inform of new updates. I know how to trigger the
> sending of e-mails if a user enters the site, and can limit this to only
> happening once every 2 days, but I am interested to know if it is possible
> to have PHP send e-mails automatically in case no one visits the site?[/color]


Sounds like a job for cron. That's a system thing, not PHP, contact your
host to see if they allow cron jobs.





Brian Rodenborn

[sk]

Re: automatic scheduled e-mails

Andy Hassall wrote:[color=blue]
> On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 19:47:28 +0000 (UTC), "David Hickman" <no.spam@please .com>
> wrote:
>[color=green]
>>I have a website that I am building in PHP that I would like to send e-mails
>>to users every 2 days to inform of new updates. I know how to trigger the
>>sending of e-mails if a user enters the site, and can limit this to only
>>happening once every 2 days, but I am interested to know if it is possible
>>to have PHP send e-mails automatically in case no one visits the site?
>>
>>Any help would be greatly appreciated.[/color]
>
> For Unix, look at cron.
> For Windows, look at Task Scheduler.
>
> Use these to periodically run a script through the command-line version of
> PHP.[/color]

Or if you have a web URL that triggers the mailing, have cron or the
task scheduler run something like wget to trigger the desired URL. Just
don't expose a script in such a way that it could be used by outsiders
to cause mischeif.

-sk