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SunT
SunT

Reputation: 333

How to send an automatic email every x days

I want to send a report from a website to the owner using an email containing the number of total views of the website and the number of views from that week, being that data stored in a .txt file. How can I make my app send an email, lets say... every 7 days? ATM I have the code bellow in my afterFilter in my AppController, it was taken from a views counter toturial, and striped of the number->image association, since it displayed the numbers with images. ATM, his should only count the total views.

I am using CakePHP 2.4.4.

afterFilter

    session_start();
    $counter = $this->webroot."counter.txt";

// Check if a text file exists. If not create one and initialize it to zero.
    if (!file_exists($counter)) {
        $f = fopen($counter, "w");
        fwrite($f,"0");
        fclose($f);
    }

// Read the current value of our counter file
    $f = fopen($counter,"r");
    $counterVal = fread($f, filesize($counter));
    fclose($f);

// Has visitor been counted in this session?
// If not, increase counter value by one
    if(!isset($_SESSION['hasVisited'])){
        $_SESSION['hasVisited']="yes";
        $counterVal++;
        $f = fopen($counter, "w");
        fwrite($f, $counterVal);
        fclose($f);
    }
    $counterVal = str_pad($counterVal, 5, "0", STR_PAD_LEFT);

}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2151

Answers (1)

StrawHara
StrawHara

Reputation: 1321

You can use crontab

http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/cron

It's an Unix task Scheduler

With cron, you can periodically call a php script for send emails ;)

Example :

01 * * * * root echo "This command is run at one min past every hour"
17 8 * * * root echo "This command is run daily at 8:17 am"
17 20 * * * root echo "This command is run daily at 8:17 pm"
00 4 * * 0 root echo "This command is run at 4 am every Sunday"
* 4 * * Sun root echo "So is this"
42 4 1 * * root echo "This command is run 4:42 am every 1st of the month"
01 * 19 07 * root echo "This command is run hourly on the 19th of July"

Upvotes: 3

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