Automatic mail send in PHP without using cron

[mahlak]

Hi
I am using PHP to develop a web application. I want to send a mail report automatically from the server, without any user interaction. I tried in cron but not properly worked in my application. Is there any other way to send aoutomatic mail from server. Any one can help pls..

[pritaeas]

Cron should work just fine. Did you have problems setting it up ?

[aldrich.abrogena.5]

Are you using mail() or did you use SMTP authentication?

[mahlak]

I have a shared web host server. I don't have any idea about how to work cron in this server

[mahlak]

I am using SMTP authentication for mail sending.

[pritaeas]

Most shared host allow cron jobs through cPanel or the likes. Am sure your host would have it documented on their website.

[mahlak]

thnk u

[mahlak]

I create cron job in ubuntu. But this is not working. How to I create cron job in ubuntu ?
Pls help me...

[pritaeas]

Can you show what you've tried ?

[mahlak]

I save the following code as crontab.txt in etc/cron.daily folder.

MAILTO=[e-mail]
1 * * * * * /opt/lampp/htdocs/rep_mail.php

But the page is not working

[pritaeas]

php is missing, see here.