[tmedic]

Thanks for looking at my distress call! I have a form and I am trying to come up with a way to do the following:

Wen the user presses "submit" I need the form to email the form information to the value of the email field (with the other fields in the subject) after the specified number of hours in the Time field. I can handle the form and email part however I am stuck on the time delay part. I have seen script examples for a delay in seconds but is it possible to delay a script for hours?

Thanks for any help you can give!

[End User]

Originally Posted by tmedic

I have seen script examples for a delay in seconds but is it possible to delay a script for hours?

You don't want to do this, for a number of reasons. What you want to do is use a cron job to send out a list of queued up emails when the time is right.

Store the emails in a table with a "send on" time field, then run a cron job every 5 minutes (or whatever) to scan the table, match the "send on" times, and then send the emails.

[tmedic]

End user - Thanks for the help. Time to get to work on that table, the cron job seems pretty straight forward.
Thanks again
- tim