Dear All,
         I am developing a website which will run all time. My requirement is that based upon time say 00.00 hrs in the server time I want to automatically initiate a process.

         To be more clear I want to send reminders to all the people whose due dates have expired. I can develop a module which will do all these functions in php. But I do not know how I can invoke the module at the time of expiry or say every day at 00.00 hours.

         So it should be a system initiated process which is triggered by time.

         Can it be done. I am using php, Apache & MySql. Any help will be appreciated.

                       Thanks in Advance.
                                                zicaden

You need to set-up a cronjob (Unix)
Or schedule a task (Win32)

Check with your ISP to see if this functionality exists on the server.

: )
Rich

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Also, you need to have the PHP interpreter installed as an executable for running scripts on the commandline. If your ISP only has PHP set up as an Apache module, ask them if they can install the executable as well. If not, you can compile it yourself (on unix) or download the .exe (on windows) and run your scripts through that.

To call a PHP script on the commandline:

prompt> php -q myscript.php

the -q option suppresses the HTTP headers it normally sends by default:
   Content-type: text/html
   X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.2


Take care,

Nik
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Could you please provide me a guide how to set it up as a cronjob

I haven't the foggiest of how to set up a cronjob. I only know that is the solution for running scripts on time triggered intervals. I just did a search of google which yielded a promising return of sites that discuss this in depth.

From what I can gather this is done at the command line. So you would likely telnet into the shell and plug in a few commands. Some ISPs have a nifty user front-end to this sort of thing and I would check for that before getting my hands dirty at the command line.

Try this:
http://www.google.com/search?q=set+up+cron+job

Best of luck!
: )
Rich

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