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Aug 26th, 2020, 05:52 PM
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Automating the running of a script?
I'm working on a website where one part of the functionality is to sign up to receive a weekly "devotional/inspiritional" via email. Once a user enters their email address, the email will get stored on the server or db (haven't decided which to use yet). Then once a week, or whatever the desired time frame would be, an email would be sent out to everyone on the list.
My question is, how can I automate this to where a script would execute to perform this process?
Thanks,
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Aug 27th, 2020, 04:10 AM
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Re: Automating the running of a script?
Originally Posted by blakemckenna
I'm working on a website where one part of the functionality is to sign up to receive a weekly "devotional/inspiritional" via email. Once a user enters their email address, the email will get stored on the server or db (haven't decided which to use yet). Then once a week, or whatever the desired time frame would be, an email would be sent out to everyone on the list.
My question is, how can I automate this to where a script would execute to perform this process?
Thanks,
If you are running on Windows you could either write a service (which is a fair amount of work) or you could use the windows task scheduler to schedule the script. https://www.windowscentral.com/how-c...ler-windows-10 gives a good outline of what is involved in the later case.
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Aug 27th, 2020, 01:23 PM
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Re: Automating the running of a script?
Can this task scheduler be done on a windows webhosting server?
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Aug 27th, 2020, 06:50 PM
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Re: Automating the running of a script?
Originally Posted by blakemckenna
Can this task scheduler be done on a windows webhosting server?
I suppose that depends on your hosting provider and exactly what they do and don't give you access to.
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Aug 27th, 2020, 08:17 PM
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PowerPoster
Re: Automating the running of a script?
I'll check into that! Thanks again for your help!
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