[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paharito) wrote:

 > Well, it maybe posibble... but how can be it done by a php script?
 > 
 > I mean:
 > 
 > - The job is to send a mail to the mail-list of my web every monday, but I
 > cannot use the crontab
 > 
 > I think I can do this script:
 > 
 > - At every visit at my index page, I check the system date, and if it is
 > equal to 0:00am of monday, send the mail, and maybe, set a variable = 1 (1
 > means Send, for example), so the next visit won't active the script that
 > sends the email...
 > 
 > But if there are 2 simultaneos visits at 0:00am or mayor, the php will
 > execute 2 times the script...
 > 
 > so... is there a good script as efective as a cron job?
 > 

cron is the superior when you need to do things like that. It's not
effective to have a script running all the time checking for jobs.

-- 
Henrik Hansen

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