date sensitive website updates with php

Anon

Hi there
i would like to prepare some updates for my website in advance and then to let them go online on a specific date. for example:

gallery xyz update --> activate on 21 april
story xyz update --> activate on 24 april
and so on.

so that i can prepare already some updates of my site in advance and don't need to do this manually on the specific dates.

is there any way do do this with php4? does anybody knowing any scripts for my problem and where i can find them? i have already searched but didn't find anything :-(

thanks for you help!
lucky

Anon

i dont believe that you can make it automatically run a script to update the files, but it is very possible to design a script to create the updates and on the day that the updates are to take place just run another script that performs the update without any help

Anon

Hi,

I am not really sure how you have things set-up, but it sounds like you already have sometype of web-site in place.

If i wanted to do something like this i would store the information in a database and then have something that would check todays date agains something in the database and see if anything new is set to go live.

For example.. you could have something that would like all gallery's/storys in a database using a timestanp. Everything someone wants to check the sorty's or gallerys it would do something like "select * from mytable WHERE timestamp < today's date".

Then you just have to add the records to the database with a timestamp in the feature.

later
- Justin

Anon

insert the if statemtes.

if the date is date xor date
do some bad things here
& include/require the exploit here
else
do nothing & wait till the data will arrive to execute the exploit

No cron,... no nothing. Simple & effective,.. & you can also expire the same statement in case you forget to remove it.

HTH ;-)

-Gord