auto email alert

[ramiwahdan]

Hi,

In my attendance system i want to add email alert using php. I want the system to check the records in my db and send email to everyone that  forgot to clock-in after 7:30AM from Sunday to Thursday. What i need to use for this, ideas?

[requinix]

cron to run your script at the designated times, mail() or some emailing library to send the emails.

[Barand]

So that they can jump in their time machines and go back to login correctly?

[ramiwahdan]

22 hours ago, Barand said:

So that they can jump in their time machines and go back to login correctly?

yes

[ramiwahdan]

On 4/10/2020 at 12:05 AM, ramiwahdan said:

On 4/9/2020 at 1:48 AM, Barand said:

So that they can jump in their time machines and go back to login correctly?

 

is there a way to do this without a cron job or is there cron jobs running xampp server?

[ginerjm]

I am not educated in this knowledge, but if Xampp is running on Windows, Google say that you can setup a BAT job and schedule it.  Do a google search for 'cron on xampp'.

[requinix]

3 hours ago, ramiwahdan said:

is there a way to do this without a cron job or is there cron jobs running xampp server?

Not unless you're a high-traffic site. You can't run PHP code unless something triggers it, and relying on people hitting your website isn't safe.

If you need to run some code at a particular time then cron, or scheduled tasks on Windows, are the correct answer.