How to integrate Mail Queue with CodeIgniter

[eluser]Flemming[/eluser]
if you have access to crontab on your linux host then you can try something like this:

open the crontab with the command crontab -e

then put this as the first line

Code:

*/5 * * * * lynx -dump http://www.yoursite.co.uk/script_to_cron.php > /dev/null

which will use the lynx browser to run your php script every 5 minutes. There are other ways - just search for crontab tutorials!

If your host does not allow you to access the crontab then you can use something like:

Code:

http://www.webbasedcron.com/

(I can recommend this one - I researched web-based cron services and this one seems the best)

Hope that helps!

Oh and by the way - there's a function missing from the example code I posted ...

In the model, it refers to

Code:

getNewsletter($newsletterID)

so you need to add this function to your model:

Code:

function getNewsletter($newsletterID)
    {        
        $this->db->where('uid', $newsletterID);
        return $this->db->get('newsletters')->row();
    }

just to get the newsletter data from the 'newsletters' table!