Strange request,but...

 

My golf club has now moved to booking your tee time by email.

 

I need my server (cpanel installed) to fire off an email from me to my golf club requesting a tee time at 7.30am every friday. If i don't get the mail in by 9.30, all the good tee times will be gone :-(

 

I can do the cronjob bit, but surely there is a simple bit of php to send an email? or do i have to use sendmail or the like??

 

Regards

 

Rich

Hi Rich!

 

For sending emails using PHP, please check the following links:

 

PHP Mail - W3schools

PHP: mail - Manual - PHP Manual

 

Regards,

/Nanashi

Hi Nanashi, thanks for the reply,

 

So i created a file called email.php and put the contents below in:-

 

<?php
$to = "me@myemail";
$subject = "Test mail";
$message = "Hello! This is a simple email message.";
$from = "me@myemail";
$headers = "From:" . $from;
mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
echo "Mail Sent.";
?> 

 

but when I ran the cron job i got the following error

 

/home/***/public_html/cgi-bin/email.php: line 1: ?php: No such file or directory

/home/***/public_html/cgi-bin/email.php: line 2: =: command not found

/home/***/public_html/cgi-bin/email.php: line 3: =: command not found

/home/***/public_html/cgi-bin/email.php: line 4: =: command not found

/home/***/public_html/cgi-bin/email.php: line 5: =: command not found

/home/***/public_html/cgi-bin/email.php: line 6: =: command not found

/home/***/public_html/cgi-bin/email.php: line 7: syntax error near unexpected token `$to,$subject,$message,$headers'

/home/***/public_html/cgi-bin/email.php: line 7: `mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);'

 

Can anyone shed some light on this for me, Am i missing a vital step here? really sorry for being such a noob.

 

Regards

 

Rich