Scheduling Email Notifications
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01-10-2019 - |
Question
I'm trying to figure out a good solution for sending email notifications based on user preference. Users can set up notifications to come
- Everytime the event occurs
- Once an hour
- Once a day
- Once a week
Would the best way to do this be to set up a crontab that runs a .php every minute checking to see if anything needs to be sent out? Is there another way/more efficient way to schedule something like this?
Solution
I'd say the following:
- In case the email should be sent everytime the event occurs, then you don't need any crontab. Just send the email when the event occur.
- Run a crontab once an hour. This crontab will fetch all events from the last hour, and send an email with all these events to the users requesting a hourly email.
- Do the same once a day and once a week for users with daily and weekly emails preferences.
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