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Hey Everyone,

I know how to right a php script to send out an email. But I want to write a script that will send out an email at a certain time, The crux is, I need the email to be sent out even if nobody is accessing the page that holds the script.

So ideally I would schedule a time for the email to be sent out.
And then, the email would be sent at that time.


Any suggestions?

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Member Avatar for james.newell

Hi stbtwitter,

Sounds like you want to set up a cron job. A cron job will run your PHP script at any interval that you set and can be set to indefinitely occur. If you have a web host with cPanel, you most probably will be able to set up your own cron jobs.

Please don't send spam emails. Hope this helps,

James

Member Avatar for abeltenny0210

Use a php email sscript can do it?

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Hi abeltenny0210,

Yep you can just write a normal PHP script that sends an email and then you set up a cron job in cPanel to run the script when you want.

Cheers,

James

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Thanks everyone, No I am not sending spam, It is for a private social network

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