automatic emails...?

messels

so, a lot of sites will send automatic reminders, whether that be when someone makes a comment on a blog you posted or if there's further action necessary (such as a confirmation).

is it possible to create a script that will run through a set of data and then email the user if the data meets a certain requirement?

i THINK i have a handle on click here to send an email situations but i haven't the foggiest if PHP can send emails automatically. meaning, i'd like to send follow up emails without having to actually DO anything. automated styles.

any help at all will be greatly appreciated. 🙂

yes. i'm a n00b.

Xager

Each time a person posts a post you see who is subscribed and send an email to those who are, what's the problem?

daredevil14

automated styles ???

so you don't want to send e-mails based on something ? ( e.g : a user posted a comment on a picture, and then the owner of the picture ( his email ) gets a message that x posted a comment... ) ?

if you don't want this... you can simply create php mailers based on time functions... for example : mail() them each week... these messages may be considered as reminders messages of something...

Xager

daredevil14 wrote:
if you don't want this... you can simply create php mailers based on time functions... for example : mail() them each week... these messages may be considered as reminders messages of something...

He still have to run the script once a week then since php can't self execute

bradmasterx

cron jobs 😃 set a automatic script that will run if you can program a php script that will select everyone that needs a reminders and send an email using the mail function but in a while loop 😃 and you can have this running every week or something using a cron job 😃

messels

bradmasterx wrote:
cron jobs 😃 set a automatic script that will run if you can program a php script that will select everyone that needs a reminders and send an email using the mail function but in a while loop 😃 and you can have this running every week or something using a cron job 😃

okay. so we're getting the answer i was hoping for. sweet.

just to recap. i need to write the php script to be a while loop going through a time frame. i haven't worked with dates/times yet. is there an example you can include so i can get a feel for the syntax?

since i'm going to base the reminders/call-to-action off of a mysql database, i'll need to create a field in the DB that includes a time stamp, right? so then i'm just selecting the data where timestamp='$timestamp' and ending the first iteration of the while loop with an email function mail (...)...??

thanks for your help thus far, btw.