Automatic Mail Sending on specific Dates in PHP

Question

I am having some mail ids in my database. I have to send mail to those mail ids automatically on some specific dates that i have mentioned in my database.How to do that in p

Answer 1

Here are a few general steps of the logic that you can follow:

The PHP script should:

• extract the email addresses and the specific dates from your database into arrays.
• check whether today's date is in the array containing the dates. Be sure to format the date appropriately!
• loop through the email addresses (preferably in a foreach() loop), if the above check returns 'true'.
• within this loop, use PHP's mail() function to send your email.

Your next step would be to set up a scheduled task that runs this script daily, usually by means of a cron job. This step depends on the server you've got.

NOTE: These steps illustrate the most basic way to do what you require. There may be other, more complex ways that would be faster, cleaner and less intensive on your server.