Cron Jobs

[vampmaster]

Hi:

Does anyone knows how can I make a Cron Job in PHP, like sending an e-mail one day after the record is created.

I have looked for the term cron job in the manual but so far no luck.

Thanks.

The Vampmaaster

[marius_13]

I would attack this in one of 2 ways. I would manually create a cron job that ran every day and looked for a flag in a record to indicate that an email needs to be sent.

If you have a lower volume or emails to send. And there maybe days with none, and you really wanted to kick it off in PHP, I would do an AT job. A cron job is more geared towards a recurring task, where an AT job (@) is more of a one time thing. If you use an AT job, I would kick it off by using the system command.

Between the 2, I would have a cron job run daily and check for an email flag. And I would manually set up the cron job.

Brian

[Anon]

A cron job isn't a PHP thing. It is a daemon that runs on Linux/Unix operating systems. If you are using one of the above mentioned OSes, type 'man crontab' for further instructions.

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Cron is just a scheduler that runs commands. You can set it up to run any unix shell script or other command line program on various time intervals. If you have a particular php page (say the page has php functions to access your database and send emails) that you want to "execute" say every day at 2 am then all you would do is enter something like this in your crontab.
To view the cron file execute the command "crontab -e"
then just enter in something like this
0 2 * /usr/local/bin/php /pathtofile/myphpfile.php

This would execute the php interpretor every day at 2am on your file and all the functions that you have in there would be processed