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Asked: 2026-05-14T04:59:16+00:00

Using PHP … This is for my personal use so I’m thinking maybe 3-4

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Using PHP …

This is for my personal use so I’m thinking maybe 3-4 emails a day.
I’m at a point where I can send an email to a dedicated email address where my script parses the message and stores it into a DB. Now, I need to figure out the best way to check the records in the DB for any upcoming task. I feel like I’m missing something, maybe like a trigger field as to when a reminder should go out. However, that’s not a concern to me at the moment since I’ll just send an alert 15 mins prior to the due date.

Question is, shoudl I run a cron job that queries the DB every minute? I take it the query will have to say something like “select all tasks that is due within 15 minutes.”

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  1. Editorial Team

    A cron job seems reasonable. You just query based on the dueDate:

    MySQL: SELECT * from jobs WHERE dueDate > NOW() + INTERVAL 15 MINUTES

    SQL Server: SELECT * from jobs WHERE dueDate > DATEADD(GETDATE(),15,minute)

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