[abtimoteo]

hi, everybody!

how is time used to trigger the sending of an e-mail? you will find below a script that will send an e-mail if (a) var1 eq var2 and (b) once there is user action (e.g., a user clicking on a button to execute the script). but what if there is no user and there is only server-time as a trigger?

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# assume that $server_time is generated using "localtime (time)"
# while $expiration_date is user-defined and in the same
# format as $server_time.

if ($server_time eq $expiration_date) # change needed here to make time
{ # the trigger in sending a notification
open (M, "|/usr/sbin/sendmail -t"); # mail.

select (M);

print M "To: email\@client.com\n";
print M "From: email\@service_provider.com\n";
print M "Subject: expired subscription\n\n";

print M "your subscription has expired\n";

close (M);
}

[Chas]

I would run this as a nightly (how ever often you need to run it) cron job.

cron tutorial

~Charlie

p.s.

Code:

if ($server_time eq $expiration_date) {...}

I'd be *very* surprised if you ever got that statement to trigger. I would leave the dates in unix timestamp format and do something like:

Code:

if (time > $exp_timestamp) {...}

of look into one, or more, of the Date::Calc functions.

~Charlie