Automatic mail sending

[eluser]Atharva[/eluser]
I usually store my cron files in cron folders. You can also user the db config from system/application/database.php and config values from system/application/config.php in that file. Here is how I do it. Suppose there is a file email_cron.php

Code:

define( 'BASEPATH', dirname(__FILE__) );

include( BASEPATH  .'/../system/application/config/database.php' );
include( BASEPATH  .'/../system/application/config/config.php' );

This will include mentioned files, so you can access database settings, base_url etc. Below goes the email code you want to run

Code:

//select email query, mail code , etc....

You can set through cpanel when this cron will run, and the command will be path to this cron file. For sending mail, you can also use phpmailer.