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[Tsukiyomi]

I'm building a site where one of the features is that user can post listings of jobs which will be viewable for one month.  After that month the listing will expire.  I was wondering if there was a way to have a script run once a day automatically to go through and remove all the expired records in the database.

Thanks in advance.

[taith]

prolly the easiest way of doin this... is storing the date in a database as
date(z);

then pull it out, if it doesnt equal today, run script, update database.

[Tsukiyomi]

But how would I get it to do that in the first place?  How would I get it to automatically look in the database on a regular basis and run this maintenance?

[ToonMariner]

you need to set a cron job.

[Tsukiyomi]

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you need to set a cron job.
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Thank you, thats perfect.  All I needed was the right term to research.