badger1010

Firstly I'd like to say I'm not a coder and I'm new to this forum, so I apologise in advance for any silly noob errors or if I have not followed appropriate forum etiquette. I have a mysql database to store customer details including the date of an annual examination. The customers appreciate being reminded about the exam date before it is due, so I want to query the db (about a month in advance) and if any date matches are found, pull out the necessary details and use them to populate and automatically send a reminder email. I thought that if I could find a php script I could use a cron job to run the query once a day, some days there may be no matches but other days there could be 6 or more. However, although I've managed to find out how the run a query on the db, I have no idea how to use the results to send the email. Is anyone able to offer some pointers as to how I can achieve the desired results? This the code I have to run the query and return any matches: <?php $servername = "localhost"; $username = "root"; $password = "*******"; $dbname = "*******"; // Create connection $conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $dbname); // Check connection if ($conn->connect_error) { die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error); } $sql = "SELECT * FROM customer_details WHERE exam_date = DATE_ADD(CURDATE(), INTERVAL 29 DAY)"; $result = $conn->query($sql); if ($result->num_rows > 0) { // output data of each row while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) { echo "Customer name: " . $row["customer_name"]. "Email: " . $row["email_address"]. "Examination date: " . $row["exam_date"]. "Serial number: " . $row["ser_no"]. "<br>"; } } else { echo "0 results"; } $conn->close(); ?> Thanks in advance for any help you may be able to offer.