Haven't found this mentioned anywhere in the forum, so I thought it appropriate to ask.
I would like to add a "daily digest" feature to my forum that emails a digest of new posts for the day to those users who have chosen to receive it. A colleague of mine has put together most of the code that generates the digest and emails it, the big question is now how to trigger this event at the end of each day. I'd like to know if anyone has a ideas on this, at present the only solution seems to be to put some code on my main website front page and have the first visitor after midnight to activate the script following a time/date checking routine which runs from the index page. Is this effective?
Simon
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I would say it is effective if someone for sure visits your forum after midnight before you want to have the digest. Thus you need to make sure it's only sent once. What db backend are you using? If you use SQL Server you can use a Job or Trigger to do send you the info, needs some programming but works like a charm. There are components that interact with the Windows Scheduler. If you have your own computer running at all time just call an asp page with the code at a certain time, just close the windows once in a while.