How to delete a MySQL record after a certain time

Question

I want to delete some messages from my MySQL database after 7 days.

My message table rows have this format: id | message | date

The date is a timestamp in th

Answer 1

For those out there who are on a shared hosting, like 1and1's, and can't create events, an alternative is to use webcron

You just need to tell webcron the url of the php script you'd like to be run, and they'll trigger it for you at the intervals you want