Hello,
I have a website for musicians where all users can post their ads for free.
I need a script that send an email for a member user when his ad is going to
be expired (let say after 30 days).
Any ideas ?
Sammy.
samsambm 0 Newbie Poster
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You'll need to setup a cron job to check when an ad will expire. For example you can add the creation date of the ad to the database, then check with the cron job for expiring ads.
The cron script can be just a regular PHP script, that is called from cron.
samsambm 0 Newbie Poster
You'll need to setup a cron job to check when an ad will expire. For example you can add the creation date of the ad to the database, then check with the cron job for expiring ads.
The cron script can be just a regular PHP script, that is called from cron.
Yes but the thing is that my site is runing on windows , not unix....
mschroeder 251 Bestower of Knowledge Team Colleague
digital-ether 399 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso Team Colleague
You can also use the windows task scheduler just like cron.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc721931.aspx
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-automate-windows-programs-on-a-schedule/
Or "at" command:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/313565
Note the program, or command to run would be:
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