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Re: [PHP-DB] Executing a query in the future

Christoph Boget

2007-09-13, 6:59 pm

>
> 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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