Great idea, thanks! :)

On Thursday 07. November 2002 22:23, T.J. Drennan wrote:
> And if you wanted to have different events triggered at different timings
> you could do something as follows:
>
> - Web App puts information about message and interval in a DB
> - Cron runs a script (every 5/15/60 minutes depending on minimum interval
> size) which reads the DB and if the interval matches the current time it
> could send the message out.
>
> I've done this a number of time in applications that sent info out at
> strange times (calendar/event notification applications, etc).
>
> The advantage to this is you don't have to modify the crontab for each
> change. You just add/remove/modify the database.
>
> -T.J.
>

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