Question

I am planning to write my first PHP server side code. It includes a scheduler that will email a message to a user on a specific date. The front end of the application is fairly simple.
PHP produces an HTML page where you can select a date in the future to post the message to a an email address.
The question is how would you create an event manager in PHP to handle this? What database would you use? MYSQL or PostgreSQL and why!?

Answer 1

To run schedule tasks on server use cron. With cron you can run php file that will read data from database and send email.