tiota Posted July 29, 2010 Share Posted July 29, 2010 Hi, I've been wondering if it is possible to load a php page according to certain time. For example at 12:00 pm a php form will pop up automatically informing an employee to fill in something in the form, another form will pop up at 4:00 pm, etc... Thanks in advance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inversesoft123 Posted July 29, 2010 Share Posted July 29, 2010 It can be done with cron jobs. Run a specific script at specific time from cron job and trigger a flag in database. Like PAGE: cronjob.php @ 4.00 pm mysql_query("UPDATE pf_events SET notify='1'"); PAGE : index.php Select flag from database. $selectflag = "SELECT * FROM pf_events'"; $selectflag2=mysql_query($selectflag); $selectflag3=mysql_fetch_array($selectflag2); if($selectflag3[notify] == "1") { // paste your popup code here } } Also, you can create another cron job script and run it on 4:05 PM daily to set notify flag again to 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonLewis Posted July 29, 2010 Share Posted July 29, 2010 If you want it to popup automatically however you'd need to use JavaScript and AJAX, because the script would now be acting client-side. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
litebearer Posted July 29, 2010 Share Posted July 29, 2010 Another scenario, by using windows scheduler you can ... 1. php script is on website 2. employee does not currently have browser open 3. at appointed time, scheduler starts browser pointed to website script 4. employee performs task Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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