Cron Jobs

[mudogg80]

How do I go about creating a cron job to send an email to customers at a specified date? Lets say I have created an email that will be sent to customers every month notifying them of something....this script will access my database, grab the customers email addresses and send. I can manually send an email to many customers but I would like to use a cron job to do this. is this possible?

Thanks.

[jatar_k]

absolutely

you create a script that does exactly what you describe and then schedule it via cron

about that easy

[RonPK]

It depends on your PHP installation as to how you can run scripts with cron. If you only have an Apache module, you'll need to call the script with a web client, basically like this:

* * * * * wget http://www.example.com/myscript.php

Otherwise, with a CLI or CGI installation, something like this might work:

* * * * * php /home/sites/www.example.com/scripts/myscript.php

[henry0]

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scroll up to message #2678

[jatar_k]

that would be msg#3372065

the other number would be the post count ;)

[henry0]

I just finished moving, so I still don't know what I do :)

[dreamcatcher]

If your server uses CPanel, the following command should work:

php -q /home/serverpath/files/file.php

Using your own path of course.

dc