Timed PHP script executions

Asked Dec 03 '15 at 12:00

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I'm not quite sure how to ask this, but here goes. I have a MySQL table that has the following fields: dateRegistered and expiryDate .The fields are quite self explanatory, now what I am trying to achieve is have a php script be executed when the date on the expiryDate is reached. I really don't know where to start. Example:

+--------+---------------------+---------------------+
| userID |    dateCreated      |      expiryDate     |
+--------+---------------------+---------------------+
|  52    | 2015-10-08 13:30:17 | 2015-10-09 13:30:17 |
+--------+---------------------+---------------------+

When the date under expiryDate is reached, a php script gets triggered. Is this possible? Are the ways

asked Dec 03 '15 at 12:00

spongyboss

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Yes it possible. Use CRON in PHP. – Siddhartha esunuri Dec 03 '15 at 12:06
http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/scheduling-tasks-with-cron-jobs--net-8800 – Siddhartha esunuri Dec 03 '15 at 12:09
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Possible duplicate of [PHP script to execute at certain times](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1981036/php-script-to-execute-at-certain-times) – NoDataDumpNoContribution Dec 03 '15 at 12:26
Thank you so much for your responses guys, I will look into them. Much appreciated – spongyboss Dec 03 '15 at 13:14
I do this using cron (I'm guessing if you're on windows you'd use Scheduled Tasks) to run a script which then checks the dates and acts accordingly. Perhaps not the best or most efficient way, but it does work well. – SteJ Dec 03 '15 at 18:35

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