Daily Mailing List using PHP/MySQL 2

[Rekcor]

Hi,

I want to make an automatic mailing system, which gets information from a MySQL database and sents it to a number of subscribers.

I know how to code everything, except one thing: the 'automatic' part. I don't want to go to my website each day and press a 'Send mail' button. What I want is a system which sends the mails itself, e.g. each day at 9 a.m.

Anybody an idea how to do this?

Regards,
Koos

 

[kenrbnsn]

What platform are you using?

If you're using any flavor of UN*X or Linux, use the cron to run your script on a schedule. If you're using Windows, there are ways of doing similar scheduling, but someone else will have to tell you, since I don't know them.

Ken

 

[jpadie]

on windows you would add a scheduled task (in control panel). the task execution would be "c:/path/to/php.exe c:/path/to/php/script.php". once the scheduled task is created then right click on it and select advanced in order to set more flexible schedulings than the wizard provides.