Re: Can php do this?

If you have built the php standalone binary then its easy- #!/usr/local/bin/php <?php // your php code here ?> What I do when I build php is build it twice. First I build it with all my options EXCEPT for with-apxs=/blah That builds the standalone binary, and I install that in /usr/local/bin Then, I build the apache module and install that where my apache modules go. This allows me to use php as a regular unix scripting language, so I can do stuff from the crontab. btw- I'm actually doing a very similar thing- I have some customer support software that pops my support e-mail address and puts the message in a MySQL database. I have a cron job that calls a php shell script that pops the e-mail for me every 15 minutes. That way I don't have to log on to the support application as often, and the customers get an automated response fairly quickly, giving them a unique case ID etc. On Sat, 24 Nov 2001 22:04:21 EST Joelmon2001@aol.com mentioned: > Thanks for your time . *This* = create follow up autoresponders > Or at least have php run with cron, so I can daily hit a mysql > db and use php to email those people at a specified time, like > every 3 days. Just so when I have users to the site who register > and their name/email is in a table "users" in db "data", > php/cron can be used to pull the name/email from mysql > and (with unsubscribe message at bottom) email them when I > say to do so in cron. Getting cron by itself to work is fine > but with php script that connects to mysql and emails users? > Can that be done? > > Sort of like cron doing what you would do if you visited > page.php and once it's hit, it emails specified users in a database > Would I need path to php in the cron script to do this? > Or am I just living a dream? > > The idea of emailing users in a mysql db with php script > every day is very appealing to me. (Yes, with unsubscribe feature) > ;) > > Thanks, I hope to goodness this made sense and you > enjoyed your holiday > > Joel > -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Michael A. Peters http://24.5.29.77:10080/