every 24 hour email generation

[Anon]

i made a little tracking program that intergrates into mysql and tracks unique users and that sort of info.

What i am trying to do is have an automatic email generated every 24 hours or so to let the client know what new users have come by over that period of time.

the problem is how to do this in php. it seems like it is not possible in php because it needs to be invoked to start the doing anything, since it does not just run continuously. any ideas?

thanks

[Anon]

Just do a cron job, if you're on a Unix system.

Write the program as a PHP shell script and then set it to execute every 24 hours using crontab.

Do a man on crontab, or do a google search on how to do a cron job -- there are tutorials all over the net.

Cron is Unix's system for automatically scheduling events. Thus, your php script won't run all the time, just when it is called by crontab.

-Jonathan