i'm in the middle of developing an auction, but stucked in the last part.
auction winners will received an email informing them tat they've won the auction.
my problem is, i dono how to automatically send out tat email.
can anybody help me with this??
necrotic posted this at 04:19 — 14th March 2003.
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When the winner has been selected just have the script send with mail();
joyce posted this at 05:54 — 14th March 2003.
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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??
zollet posted this at 06:59 — 14th March 2003.
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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...
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Mark Hensler posted this at 08:06 — 14th March 2003.
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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.
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