I have systems running in PHP that do things periodically, I go round this
by writing cron scripts in linux and specifying php as the intepretor of the
scripts eg
=================
#!/usr/bin/php
<?php
Include('Mail.php'); # pear mail
...
...
# or using kannel to send an sms using http request
file_get_contents('http://abcd/sendmessage?dst=072283743&msg=hello');
?>
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I then save that, put execute permissions (chmod +x filename) then put it on
my cron
Note that you have to have php-cli installed on linux
That way its executed periodically. Same applies for windows (task
scheduler)
From: Peter Karunyu [mailto:pkarunyu@gmail.com]
Sent: 25 June 2010 12:52 p
To: Skunkworks Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Enquires to the skunk community
Thinking aloud:
PHP is an event driven platform i.e. someone or something needs to do
something for PHP to do something e.g. click a link or a button. Of course
there are exceptions to this rule, like using Javascript to mimic user
actions at regular intervals, but then this means the browser needs to be
open all the time, something not possible on a serious server.
But maybe you could setup a scheduled event in either windows or Linux which
accesses a certain URL, then this URL just happens to be the one that sends
the sms'es....
Or you could create a desktop application using PHP. Now that would be fun!
:-)
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 1:17 PM, John wambugu <bwambugu2004@yahoo.com>
wrote:
Hallo guyz .
what do i need to make sure that my system sends reminder sms to my clients.
my system is in PHP/Mysql
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