[SOLVED] Send msg Before 1 week Expire

[balkan7]

hi guys

i got in datebase 2 fields:

 

date_start

date_expire

 

now i need check date expire before 1 week expire send to user email ...

[tinker]

you'll need some kind of cron process to run a script that checks and sends. Depending upon your host influences how your cron is setup, you could even do it manually once a week, or even setup a cron job at home which calls an appropriate script on your server.

[balkan7]

yes but i dont have cron job if you can example to code if posible ?

[dooper3]

The script could be something along the lines of...

 

$now=time();
$nextweek=$now+(60*60*24*7);
if ($expiry<=$nextweek && $expiry >=$today) {
 mail($to,$from,$subject, "From: [email protected]");
}

 

Obviously you'd need to stick in your database connection bits around that script and make it a little more detailed than that, but I hope that gives you the idea.

 

After the email was sent you'd also need to make sure that the database was updated to show that, otherwise people would receive multiple emails.

[balkan7]

field in date base:

field:banner_expire  type:datetime  Null: yes

for expire i used this code:

<?php $time = date("Y-m-d H:i:s");
		if ($data['banner_expire'] < $time) {
			$expires = dbquery("UPDATE ".$db_prefix."btr_banners SET banner_state='0' WHERE banner_id='".$data['banner_id']."'");
		}?>

 

now if i use your code maybe not working propertly ?

 

[balkan7]

if i use this code can be work? because field in datebase are: datetime null.

 

code:

<?php $now=time();
$nextweek=$now+(60*60*24*7);
if ($expiry<=$nextweek && $expiry >=$today) {
  mail($to,$from,$subject, "From: [email protected]");
} ?>

[dooper3]

I'm sorry I don't really understand what you're trying to say. As long as you retrieve the expiry time from the database and put it in the variable $expiry then the above code will work.

[balkan7]

i can use this way ?

 

<?php $now = date("Y-m-d H:i:s");
$nextweek=$now+(60*60*24*7);
if ($data['banner_expire']<=$nextweek && $data['banner_expire'] >=$today) {
  mail($to,$from,$subject, "From: [email protected]");
} ?>

 

i dont understand what doing variable $today ?

[dooper3]

no, date("Y-m-d H:i:s") is not valid, for the current time/date just use $now=time() as i said above.

 

And sorry, $today should be $now.

[balkan7]

soryy for reply i just wanna to know for this code can work propertly,

<?php 
$now = time();
      $nextweek = $now+(60*60*24*7);
      if ($data['banner_expire'] <= $nextweek) {
      mail($to,$subject,$msg,"From: [email protected]");
      } ?>

 

i ask this question because field banner_expire in datebase is:

`banner_expire` datetime default NULL,