Automated PHP Emailer

Email Webstats every morning automatically

[wfernley]

Hello,

I was curious if this is possible. I need to make a script for our website that emails me everyday on certain statistics regarding our website. I was curious if there is a way that I can create this script to automatically email me every morning with the previous days statistics. I thought I remember seeing something similar to Linux's Crontab except it was a PHP version.

Has anyone had any experience with created an automated PHP emailer?

Thanks in advance for your help :)

Wes

[jatar_k]

why not fire off the script with cron? I have tons of these, I just run a nightly cron and have it send me whatever I need.

[wfernley]

I heard you can't use cron, or that you can its just extremely difficult. Would you happen to have some examples or howto's?

[jatar_k]

all the cron does is start the script at a given time, the script itself is just a regular old php script.

I have a cron line like so

31 9 * * 1,2,3,4,5 /usr/local/bin/php /example/crons/get_conversion_rate.php &

that runs at 931am monday to friday

the script itself just pulls rates from a bank, updates a db, logs some values and emails me the new rates. I can't post it though sorry, it would take hours to get all of the specifics out. It just uses a regular old mail() call to send the email.

[wfernley]

Thanks Jatar_k. I didn't think it was that easy. I currently have cron setup to update my AwStats everyday. I heard you can't add php files to the cron. I will try it out though.

[vbbnn]

Use a system scheduled task to trigger yuor script.

[jatar_k]

>> system scheduled task

that's cron for windows ;)

[wfernley]

Alright, well I just finished the cronjob and its working great.

Thanks again for all your help! :)

wes