Sending automated reminder via email

[kilbey1]

I'm not sure if this is something to be done through the backend or the frontend of a site. I'd like to send an automated email via email to an address in either of the following ways:

1. entries in database are more than 2 weeks old,
   or
2. automatically every 2 weeks

What can I use to talk to my database and generate the email? Does it still require user intervention, ie. button on an adminstration page that scans for the entries? My reasons for doing this is to remind others to check an admin page and remove old entries.

• Eve

[LordShryku]

Sounds like a common cron script. Just make the php page to check the database and generate the email. Then insert it into crontab to run at your desired interval.

[kilbey1]

Is this something commonly allowed by a hosting service? We don't happen to be running it on our own machine...

[LordShryku]

Most hosting services will allow this, at least, in my experience. Check with yours to see if they allow you to run cron jobs.