Re: Automatically changing data in database

We had a similar problem, however, I wasn't convienced that our hosting service would run the cron job each day... What we did was this, we used the user to change the file for us. We used the date function to get the day of the year, 214th day 215th day etc then created a dummy file 214.dat etc. Each time the user requested a specific function, also relating to articles, the script would check the day of the year and compare it to the dat file, if the numbers match the script does this that and the other thing, if the numbers do not match, it's after midnight, the script deletes the old dat file, creates a new one, then makes whatever changes or fill whatever requests etc based on the fact that it's a new day. In short, the first user to access our site after midnight , reset all the dat files and changed the face of a particular page. ken Siim Einfeldt wrote: > > Hi folks > > Im working on an online magazine. I need the so said > 'todays' article to > change every day at 24.00. How could I tell the program to make the > changes at exactly 24.00? > > Thank you in advance, > Siim Einfeldt