Executing a query in the future

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I am looking for a way in PHP to execute a query at some point in the
future. Here is my example; I am writing a page to checkout laptop
computers to instructors. I want the person that checks out the laptop to
receive an email when the laptop is close to being to, but I want this to be
automated. I don't want to have to pull up a page everyday to run the
query. Is there something that can run in the background that can run a
page at varying intervals?

markb

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Re: Executing a query in the future

cron?

or if on windows they have a scheduler, and then just run a command line
PHP script that checks due dates and sends out emails as necessary, not
sure you need a web page to send out email notifications...
-B

Mark Bomgardner wrote:
> I am looking for a way in PHP to execute a query at some point in the
> future. Here is my example; I am writing a page to checkout laptop
> computers to instructors. I want the person that checks out the laptop to
> receive an email when the laptop is close to being to, but I want this to be
> automated. I don't want to have to pull up a page everyday to run the
> query. Is there something that can run in the background that can run a
> page at varying intervals?
>
> markb
>
>

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RE: Executing a query in the future

>From: "Mark Bomgardner"
>Is there something that can run in the background that can run a
>page at varying intervals?
>
>markb

Unix/Mac/Linux: cron
Windows: task scheduler

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Re: Executing a query in the future

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>
> I am looking for a way in PHP to execute a query at some point in the
> future. Here is my example; I am writing a page to checkout laptop
> computers to instructors. I want the person that checks out the laptop to
> receive an email when the laptop is close to being to, but I want this to
> be
> automated. I don't want to have to pull up a page everyday to run the
> query. Is there something that can run in the background that can run a
> page at varying intervals?
>
> markb
>

Couldn't you set up a cron job to run this script every day?

thnx,
Chris

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