loamguy

Yeah, we are stuck with IIS on this hosting package (there is both ASP.net and PHP involved). Does anyone know of a 3rd party tool that could ping a PHP url? If I set up a file to poll MYSQL and send out emails, does anyone know of a service I could use to hit that URL on a nightly basis?

Looks like our godaddy server is hosting IIS and they say we won't have authority to create a task. Are there any 3rd-party tools that could run a PHP URL once a day maybe?

Ok, thanks all!

Hi all, Newb here with a few months of PHP experience. I'm working on a project where if a web user signs up for a 30-day trial, they need to be notified near the end of that trial--let's say 25 days--that the trial is expiring. So I need some kind of batch process that runs in the background, perhaps every night at 1am, that looks at the signup date for all trial users and compares that date to the current date. If the difference is 5 days, then that user should be sent an email. Does anyone know how to set up a nightly batch process that like this? I'm not concerned so much with the date comparison as I am with getting a daily process to run in the background. Coldfusion has something called a Scheduled Task, but being new to PHP, I don't know what would be comparable. Any help welcome! Thanks...