Re: [PHP] Automatically send email on special day

2002-08-15 Thread Jason Wong
On Thursday 15 August 2002 21:28, César Aracena wrote: [snip] > I'm tired of watching replies like "just make a CRON job" or "set up a > scheduled task" so from now on, I will be including "no server reach" or > something like that into all my messages and suggest that all the people > who's als

RE: [PHP] Automatically send email on special day

2002-08-15 Thread David Buerer
ay, August 15, 2002 6:29 AM To: 'David Buerer'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP] Automatically send email on special day David. This is for you to note, as well as most of the people of this list who think that ALL OF US use own our computers as Internet Servers, being able to make CRON jobs

RE: [PHP] Automatically send email on special day

2002-08-15 Thread César Aracena
avoid large amounts of unusable messages. Hope you understand, C. > -Original Message- > From: David Buerer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 3:26 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [PHP] Automatically send email on special day > > He

RE: [PHP] Automatically send email on special day

2002-08-15 Thread Jay Blanchard
Whay not just set up a page that lists today's birthdays and a button that sends e-mail greetings. You can place this page in a secure directory so everyone who visits can get to it and click the button. a. create page and script b. place in secure directory c. log in each day d. click button HT

Re: [PHP] Automatically send email on special day

2002-08-14 Thread David Buerer
From: "Liam MacKenzie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "NoWhErEMan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 10:11 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Automatically send email on special day > when the function excecutes, it checks the current

Re: [PHP] Automatically send email on special day

2002-08-14 Thread Chris Shiflett
if last_email_date != today { send email last_email_date = today } Happy hacking. Chris NoWhErEMan wrote: >I can ensure ar least one visitor per day, that;s me!! >Since my server in on my local windows mechine, i can load the page at start >up. >But i have a question, how can i ensur

Re: [PHP] Automatically send email on special day

2002-08-14 Thread Liam MacKenzie
ginal Message - From: "NoWhErEMan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 3:08 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Automatically send email on special day I can ensure ar least one visitor per day, that;s me!! Since my server in on my local windows mech

Re: [PHP] Automatically send email on special day

2002-08-14 Thread NoWhErEMan
at... fine... I think they WILL have at least ONE visitor per day for sure. C. > -Original Message- > From: Liam MacKenzie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 1:22 AM > To: 'NoWhErEMan'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [PHP] Automatic

RE: [PHP] Automatically send email on special day

2002-08-14 Thread César Aracena
Man'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [PHP] Automatically send email on special day > > Hey, if you don't have access to CRON, you could try and include the page > in > your index.php. > Set it so it only runs once though, per day. That means that as soon as > someone

Re: [PHP] Automatically send email on special day

2002-08-14 Thread Liam MacKenzie
Then again, I'm having one of those days Ignore me... - Original Message - From: "César Aracena" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'NoWhErEMan'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 2:17 PM Subject: RE: [PHP

RE: [PHP] Automatically send email on special day

2002-08-14 Thread César Aracena
This have been very much discussed in this list, and the only logical way of doing this through PHP would be to have a script that reads the actual date of the server's system once a day, but that would be just impossible without having that script (page) reloaded at least once a day. I think the