Mark Hensler — Fri, 14 Mar 2003 08:06:49 +0000

You could have a cron job run every 30 minutes. The cron would check the DB for any recently closed auctions, email the appropriate people, then flag the auction as having been responded to.

zollet — Fri, 14 Mar 2003 06:59:11 +0000

Hmm........ (I'm a little stunned that you've managed to code an auction script and yet not able to send email to the winners)

Anyways, it depends on your database setup and what your auction script does once an auction is over. Does it somehow mark the winners? If so, just put a few extra lines to send an email to each winner...

joyce — Fri, 14 Mar 2003 05:54:49 +0000

i know how to send out email. wat imean is, how to know when the auction ends and automatically send out email to the winner??

necrotic — Fri, 14 Mar 2003 04:19:41 +0000

http://www.php.net/mail

When the winner has been selected just have the script send with mail();