Auto email sent every 6 months

[benrob82]

We have a membership system on our site and we want to be able to send an email out when the member is 6 months through their membership.

I know how I would do this in ASP i.e. setting up the datediff function from the membership start date to todays date and then generate the email, but I cant seem to be able to do this in PHP.

Does anyone know any good tutorials or examples of this. Also how would I get the script automatically each day?

Thanks

 

[sleipnir214]

A recommended method for determining when a member is 6 months through a membership will depend on how you have stored your members' records.

A recommended method for running periodically running scripts without supervision depends on your run environment.

How 'bout some details?


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[benrob82]

the member details are stored in a users table in a mysql database which is then accessed via SugarCRM.

What I need to do is get an automated script to run once each day to determine if there are any members who are 6 months through their membership and if they are send out an email.

 

[sleipnir214]

The "run environment" question is still hanging out there, and it makes a big difference as to how you will automate the daily running of this script.

On unix-like OSes, you have the cron daemon available. On Win32, you have the Scheduled Tasks gadget.



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[benrob82]

thanks for your help but I have it sorted now.