Hey guys, you're all making this too dificult. Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and even Window 98 all have a built in schedule utility. On NT, it's accessed via the AT command. In order to use it, the "Scheduler" system service must be installed.
Once it's installed, tell it to call the PHP executable with the script which sends the emails as the first paramter. For example, on widnow NT you could schedule the following: AT 06:00 /every:M,T,W,Th,F,Sa,Su c:\myscripts\gobirthday.bat The contents of gobirthday.bat would be only one line, c:\php\php.exe c:\myscripts\gobirthday.php then every day at 6:00am the batch file gobirthday.bat would be ran which executes the gobirthday.php script. now it doesn't matter whehter you have visitors at all to your site. Every morning the birthday emails will get sent. David ----- Original Message ----- 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 date, then looks in a > little textfile, if it's a match, it stops the script, but if the text file > says a different date, it processes the scripts then updates the text file. > > Follow me? > You could also use a MySQL database. > > > > > ----- Original 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 mechine, i can load the page at start > up. > But i have a question, how can i ensure the script only runs once though, > per day? > I think it is related to coding > Say, my index.php have a script to check current day and send the email if > birthday. > However, when more than one visitor on index.php, it will send duplicated > email.... > > Nowhereman > "César aracena" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ¼¶¼g©ó¶l¥ó·s»D > :001e01c24414$789a5490$[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Not ignored Lian. That idea is great but only if you are 100% sure that > your site is going to have at least one visitor per day. If you want to > setup a script like that in your pet's dedicated page, which maybe will > not have that many visitors at first, you will probably miss a lot of > appointments. In the other hand, if Hotmail or Yahoo want to do that... > 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] 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 visits your site they activate it for that day. It'd only > work if > > you had the traffic though. > > > > Just an idea. > > > > 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] Automatically send email on special day > > > > > > 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 there are two way of doing this. First, would be to setup a > cron > > job under unix (which I don't know so I'm guessing here) and second, > > which is the easiest, would be to have that script in a page with > > refreshing META tags, so it would refresh itself every 24 or 12 hours. > > > > Does this make any sense? C. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: NoWhErEMan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 1:03 AM > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: [PHP] Automatically send email on special day > > > > > > Hi all, > > > My site maintain a list of members, which i knew their birthday, and > i > > > want > > > to send a email greeting to them on their birthday, of course, > > > automatically. > > > > > > How can i do that? > > > > > > Thanks in advance > > > Nowhereman > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
