Automated email

[teejayuu]

Hi

I have been tasked to build an application using MySQL, PHP on IIS7. One of the criteria is that the application checks after 1 day (and again after 3 days) to see if a flag has been set. If it hasn't the application then sends an email to an individual with data from MySQL.

My application already sends notification emails to the invidiual as part of the user interaction with the application, what I'm looking for is to do a similar thing without user interaction. Is there a way to do this?

Thanks
Tony

[lammert]

Hi Tony,

You probably need to use the Windows task scheduler for this. It should call a PHP file of your application on specified moments.

[teejayuu]

Thanks lammert. That works. The problem is I now have an open browser on my server. Is there a way I can close this?

[coopster]

Why is there an open browser on the server?