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Posted by Bart op de grote markt on 11/21/06 10:19
Steve Hicks schreef:
> Maybe I don't understand the question, but it seems like there are a
> number of options. If you have the correct access on your server, you
> could set up a cron job to run a PHP script at a certain time each week
> which does the mailing. If not, as far as I know, you can really only
> trigger the event by somebody loading a PHP script via the 'net. You
> could make a page which only you can load (password/account protected),
> and just make sure you do it every week. My preferred option in this
> case is to check the date each time anyone loads the page. As long as
> you get more than a few hits a week, and if you don't mind the email
> being a bit irregular, then you could wait for the first person to log
> in after a given time each week and launch the mailing process.
>
> But I'm a relative novice and I'm sure there are better ways - anybody
> else?
>
> -steve hicks
I would do the same, as I think it's the easiest. I guess there are
more visitors per day, so if u can trigger a script that checks if the
last mailingcheck was at least a week ago. Or if it has to be on a
specific day of the week, just check if u have already done the mailing
since eg. last sunday. U can just create a table in ur database for
that and it's easy to follow up that way.
I'm sure there are options to do those tasks automatically like with
crontab, but I guess ur hosting company has to support that.
Regards,
Bart
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