E-mail at a certain time

[RussellC]

I am creating a client tracking system and I would love it if users could set up an action item and set what time they want to be reminded about it, then have an email sent to their box to be reminded. I don't know if this is possible in PHP, but if anyone knows how, let me know. Thanks.

[hakre]

you can create something like that with a crontab job calling a php script which checks a db for scheduled actions and performs these then.

but you need to have crontab installed. ask your host.

[RussellC]

Thanks for the help. I'll try it out. I host my own server for the Intranet site I am dealing with so I will play with it. Thanks.

[andreasfriedrich]

Both

cron

and

at

can be used to perform some action at a specified time. Use cron when you want to perform some task regularly, such as calling a php script. Use at when you want to perform a certain task once at a certain time.

Andreas

[RussellC]

Thanks andreas