Let's assume for a minute that you've already built the perfect little online store for your business and you're even starting to get a couple of orders. Now let's say that instead of logging into a web page every day to check your sales, you want daily reports sent to you everyday at midnight (noon, 5pm, whatever...). How do you tell your site to do it? It's easy to get an email sent whenever an order is placed because you have a triggering mechanism in the user clicking the "Place Order" button, but how do you get a script to fire all on it's own? We'll like most things in life there's more then one approach to this problem. In this article I'll walk you through the two most common ones, outline the benefits and drawbacks of each, and provide basic sample code that you can use to set up your own scheduled events.
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