Question

I am creating a reminder system which uses sms messages to send event reminders from a database. I plan to create the site using php to produce forms and handle database access.
One feature that i need is the ability to send the reminders automatically (so for example at 12pm every day), without the user being logged into the site, which is what i am stuck on.
Is there a simple way to do this? I have searched google without much luck.

Answer 1

You should setup a cronjob on your server to do that. Check this link for example. So, basically, your cronjob will execute some PHP script which will access the database and perform all the actions.