Delayed Form Submission

[Tim_Silva]

Hi,

I would like to spread my submitted articles so that instead of publishing them immediately they will be published, let's say every 1 hour. That way I can post 10 articles, for example, and have a new article every 1 hour from 7AM all the way till 9PM.

Does anybody knows of a script or class that would allow me to do that? Any pointer would be appreciated.

Tim

[etully]

We don't know anything about the kind of CMS you are using - or if you're even using a CMS. There are a dozen ways to do what you need but the right solution depends on how you are currently publishing your articles.

You could alter your CMS to accept the articles but add them to your database over time. You could write a script that would post each article to your CMS at certain intervals. You could alter your display page to only show articles that have been flagged as published and have a cron job that alters your database at the desired times. You could put timestamps on the articles in your database and make your display page only show articles with timestamps in the past. You could write a shell script that automatically moves HTML files from one directory to another at certain intervals. One of these solutions is definitely right for you.