Posted by Colin McKinnon on 08/18/05 11:18

sherryonline@gmail.com wrote:

> i have a page and i need that page to be called every day at 12:00
> that page is going to connect to the database fetch some emails and
> will start mailing them how i am goning to do this.

> can i do it using cron in cpanel

erm maybe - if you gave some clues about what OS it's running on. Also WTF
is cpanel?

Certianly on *nix/Linux box cron is the tool to run jobs at regular
intervals but:

1) you need appropriate permissions to submit cron jobs
2) you'll need to either run it using the standalone PHP executable (which
may or may not be installed on your system) or use a command line tool like
curl/lynx/wget... to fetch the page from the webserver.

C.

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