Need to delete calender records after event

[dotty]

Hi,

I have a calender of events that are stored in a database. I need to auto-delete these events once they have taken place.

I guess that I write a script to delete records and add an 'if date is before today'. So how does the script automatically run? Does this require a 'cron' job or is there some preferred or better method to handle this?

Anybody know??

Thanks.🙂

[aartjanboor]

I think there are two ways to do this.

1. You make a script checking if the events in the db have expired, if so you delete them. You run this script on every page request, before the calender events get outputted.

Then the event wont be deleted at that exact time but it will be before a next user requests the calender.

2. You set up a cronjob to check every day if events have expired.
   If you don't have cronjobs on your webspace go to www.webcron.org