e-course email question

[asparatu]

I have client that wants to do a 5 day e-course via email. I know how im going to do it for the day they are going to signup but what wanted to know is what would be the best way to do after the first day.
I was thinking of making a php script that queries a data base and check a date and base on that date it would send out the next e-course and run it as crons job?

is there a better way i can do this.
Thank you,
shane

[WeAnswer_IT]

If you're using PHP, the date check script in a cron job is exactly the right solution. There is no better way to do this with a normal PHP setup, unless someone actually manually sent the e-mails him/herself.

[asparatu]

Thank you,

Now i have figure out how do it now 🙂

[WeAnswer_IT]

Maybe these will help?

http://htmlcenter.com/blog/running-php-scripts-with-cron/

http://damonparker.org/blog/2006/05/10/php-cron-script-to-run-automated-jobs/