Argh! Please drop the purple bakground from your email. HTML email is bad enough since many of us use mail readers that can't read it, but black on purple is just plain hard to look at!
"webmaster mbtradingco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was wondering if it is posible to make in PHP a cron job, that will > trigger an event (i.e. send an e-mail) long after the process of the > data has taken place, like programming an e-mail to go out, on an > specified date. I recommend inserting the data into a database (perhaps MySQL) which includes the email data, recipients and date/time to send. Then setup a cron job which to run every X minutes which checks for pending emails, runs them after the date/time has been reached and either deletes the records when complete, moves them to a different table or changes a status flag so the next query won't process the same records. Personally, I'd install PHP as a CGI to do it, but if you can't or want to avoid that you could use wget or lynx to call the script over the web (of course you could always use perl or your favorite scripting language). If you do that, you should consider password protecting the script so others can't access it. Others accessing it may not be a security risk, but it could add load you don't want. Both lynx and wget allow you to pass a HTTP user/password. -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC http://www.befriend.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
