> > I am looking for a way in PHP to execute a query at some point in the > future. Here is my example; I am writing a page to checkout laptop > computers to instructors. I want the person that checks out the laptop to > receive an email when the laptop is close to being to, but I want this to > be > automated. I don't want to have to pull up a page everyday to run the > query. Is there something that can run in the background that can run a > page at varying intervals? > > markb > Couldn't you set up a cron job to run this script every day? thnx, Chris