Re: Automatically send email on special day

when the function excecutes, it checks the current date, then looks in a little textfile, if it's a match, it stops the script, but if the text file says a different date, it processes the scripts then updates the text file. Follow me? You could also use a MySQL database. ----- Original Message ----- From: "NoWhErEMan" <vckh@yahoo.com> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 3:08 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Automatically send email on special day I can ensure ar least one visitor per day, that;s me!! Since my server in on my local windows mechine, i can load the page at start up. But i have a question, how can i ensure the script only runs once though, per day? I think it is related to coding Say, my index.php have a script to check current day and send the email if birthday. However, when more than one visitor on index.php, it will send duplicated email.... Nowhereman "César aracena" <icaam@icaam.com.ar> ¼¶¼g©ó¶l¥ó·s»D :001e01c24414$789a5490$e4c405c8@gateway... Not ignored Lian. That idea is great but only if you are 100% sure that your site is going to have at least one visitor per day. If you want to setup a script like that in your pet's dedicated page, which maybe will not have that many visitors at first, you will probably miss a lot of appointments. In the other hand, if Hotmail or Yahoo want to do that... fine... I think they WILL have at least ONE visitor per day for sure. C. > -----Original Message----- > From: Liam MacKenzie [mailto:phplist@operationenigma.com] > Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 1:22 AM > To: 'NoWhErEMan'; php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP] Automatically send email on special day > > Hey, if you don't have access to CRON, you could try and include the page > in > your index.php. > Set it so it only runs once though, per day. That means that as soon as > someone visits your site they activate it for that day. It'd only work if > you had the traffic though. > > Just an idea. > > Then again, I'm having one of those days.... > > Ignore me... > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "César Aracena" <icaam@icaam.com.ar> > To: "'NoWhErEMan'" <vckh@yahoo.com>; > <php-general@lists.php.net> > Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 2:17 PM > Subject: RE: [PHP] Automatically send email on special day > > > This have been very much discussed in this list, and the only logical > way of doing this through PHP would be to have a script that reads the > actual date of the server's system once a day, but that would be just > impossible without having that script (page) reloaded at least once a > day. > > I think there are two way of doing this. First, would be to setup a cron > job under unix (which I don't know so I'm guessing here) and second, > which is the easiest, would be to have that script in a page with > refreshing META tags, so it would refresh itself every 24 or 12 hours. > > Does this make any sense? C. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: NoWhErEMan [mailto:vckh@yahoo.com] > > Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 1:03 AM > > To: php-general@lists.php.net > > Subject: [PHP] Automatically send email on special day > > > > Hi all, > > My site maintain a list of members, which i knew their birthday, and i > > want > > to send a email greeting to them on their birthday, of course, > > automatically. > > > > How can i do that? > > > > Thanks in advance > > Nowhereman > > > > > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php