Re: Dated/Timed actions

From: Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 09:09:58 +0000
Subject: Re: Dated/Timed actions
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Stephane, One possibilety is to have a script which does the sending - checking against a db to see what to send out, having it called periodically from a cron job. I have built a (very) simple little daemon for doing jobs like this, it works similarly to cron except it is easier to programmaticly add and remove jobs. It also works on a linear time idea, rather than periodic like cron, so you can ask it to schedule a job a specific time offset from now, or at an absolute time (like cron). This is part of a package i've been working on for a while for defining & managing processes like you describe below. Lukas "Stephane Besnard" <stephane_besnard@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:F12jK40qbX9qfQdOHjL0000dc25@hotmail.com... > Hi, > > Does anybody know how to generate 'dated/timed actions' with PHP? > > By this I mean, for instance, automatically sending an email to a group of > people when a specific date and time is reached: sending a happy birthday > message to a users. > > Thanks, > Stephane. > > _________________________________________________________________ > Téléchargez MSN Explorer gratuitement à l'adresse > http://explorer.msn.fr/intl.asp >

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