notify user after specific time period

SeenGee

I've set up a ecommerce site and i want to be able to send customers a reminder after a specific time period (2 months) for example. This script would invite them to repeat a previous order, the date of which is stored in a sales table in my db. I was looking earlier a thread on scheduling php scripts which made use of CRON and WGET, is this the right way to go for my needs? If so then how would i go about setting this up on a shared server?
If not can anyone give me any pointers please?

Thanks a lot.

btw.. site running on a windows server.

tekky

you would write a php script to query the DB check the order dates vs current date and if over 2 months... or at 2 months... you would have it send the email...

then schedule this script to be run via your windows task scheduler.... or CRON if non windows....

SeenGee

thanks for the info, i'm not familiar with the windows task scheduler, how can this be implemented?

cheers.

tekky

task scheduler can be found... Accessories under your program menu..... generally under System Tools or something of the such...

SeenGee

ok, but how can it be implemented in the context of a shared server that i do not admin myself.

Thanks.

tekky

ask the admin to set it up for you...., give them the script and all the information they need to give to it when they run it....

same as you would any other paid hosting (unix or windows based) -- that is part of the admin's job (unless the host just totally blows goats :p)