Re: Event Handling
| From: | David Hutto | Date: | Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:00:39 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Event Handling | ||
| References: | 1 2 3 | Groups: | php.general |
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On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 7:31 AM, Jochem Maas <jochem@iamjochem.com> wrote:
> Op 3/15/10 8:24 AM, Midhun Girish schreef:
> > Hi ,
> > Just as David Hutto has said,What you need is the cronjob... Make a
> script
> > say "check.php" which checks the db to see if any new entries are made...
> > and if yes send the mail ...
> >
> > now using the cronjob feature in linux os(which will be provided as a
> > service in your linux hosting cpanel), set a cronjob which calls the "
> > http://www.yoursite.com/check.php" URL every
> > minute.... now a trigger
> will
> > be there every minute to the script and the emails will be send
> irrespective
> > of whether anyone is browsing the site or not.... hope it is clear...
> >
>
> use cron - yes
> have cron call a web URL - no, instead just call the script via the php CLI
> sapi,
> e.g. a cmdline as follows in cron:
>
> /usr/env php /path/to/your/check.php &> /dev/null
>
I do believe removing the /dev/null will send error messages during the
building of the script, correct?