How to send automatic email alert if data not updated

[Ammu]

Hi friends,
In my php site admin have to update contents in the site weekly. If he forgot to update data , I want to sent an email alert to him. How it is possible? Is it possible to sent mail from back end. I have googled and i got we can write trigger. but I dont know how to do that. anybody please help me.

[r035198x]

Ya you can use your OS scheduling capabilities to do the triggering and then run a php script that does the logic to send the email. e.g on linux you can use cron to schedule the execution of a command say "php /yourCodeLocatio n/yourScript.php" . The command calls the php interpreter directly from cron. If you want to go through an application url instead to trigger it then you can use wget to request a php page url which would then trigger the code execution.

[Ammu]

@r035198x thank you for your response. How can I set cron to shedule the execution? Is it possible to do the task daily?

[r035198x]

Yes you can schedule daily. How to do it depends on what your OS is.

[Ammu]

hosting on Linux OS.

[r035198x]

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CronHowto