Email autoresponder

[fazzfarrell]

I am looking to find a decent tutorial or software that will run on a php based site to send an automatic email when a user creates an account.

 

Then 2 days later another email will be auomaticaly sent and so on..can any one help?

 

thanks

[dvd420]

Hi,

 

Wenever you are executing the query to insert data into table, call your mailer script.

 

To send notification after 2 days, schedule a cron job

[gevans]

You're lokking at using a few techniques here.

 

Firstly to send an email when someone registered is simple, you just need to use the mail() function at the end of the register process.

 

For sending an email every two days you'll need to run a cron job (linux). When you register a user store a MySQL DATETIME or timestamp so you know when they registered. Your cron will call a script that will check when the user registered, if necesary call the mail() function and send an email.

 

(As above)