date trigger

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date trigger	3/27/2008 3:42:25 PM
PHPRunner General questions
H hassanprogrammer author Is there a way to have a date filed trigger and email or notification of some sort. Exampl, I have a date called purchase date. The ship date is blank but the data entery person has 3 days to ship the product. I would like for the ship date to trigger and email if this date is 4 days later then the sip date and or if its blank. Thanks


	Sergey Kornilov admin 3/27/2008
	You need to write a separate script for this purpose. This script needs to be scheduled to run once a day, check dates and send an email if required. To schedule this script use CRON on Unix systems and Windows scheduler on Windows.