"James, Yz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is there any way of automating tasks in php scripts, WITHOUT having them
> open? Ie, having some method or other to send out an email automatically,
> once a week, as a newsletter, based on data / criteria from a database?
cron. See "man cron" from Linux/Unix commandline. Use it to schedule
programs. If you have PHP installed as a CGI you can call a PHP file
directly, otherwise you'll have to call it using its full URL using a
program like wget or lynx.
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