Question

Possible Duplicate:
schedule an email in php

I want to schedule my php script which sends emails using windows services as the website is hosted in windows machine. I am looking for a solution which does not involve cron jobs. I want users to schedule a time and the windows service should execute my php email script on the scheduled time so that emails are sent on the scheduled user time. I want to write the entire code in php.

Answer 1

You don’t have access to cron jobs on a Windows Machine 😉 But, there isn’t a way to do that without the window’s scheduler unless you have a VERY active site where someone is always on it, and then you can check and run on each page load or something similar. Otherwise, I would write a script that checks the DB for when emails are suppose to be sent – and pull the ones that are suppose to be ran that minute (or half-hour, or whatever intervals you allow your users to select from), and schedule run that script every minute/interval via the windows scheduler.