php membership system , advise please

zammit1234 · May 9, 2012, 2:38pm

Hi , I’m making plans for a website that will have memberships where they pay each month . I have never done anything like this before and was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction , would PHP scheduler work ?

What I want to do is 7 days before the account is due payment email the user telling them . If the user doesnt pay disable there account .

Any help would be great

Thanks Ian

richei · May 9, 2012, 5:06pm

Not sure how you’re going to track payments, but save the date in a unix format, then use a cron job to run a script that’ll look at the due date, then send out the nesecary emails. The trick to that is to not spam the person with relentless emails.

zammit1234 · May 9, 2012, 7:17pm

Ok thank you ill have to do some more research into how to mange payments , and look into cronjobs as I’ve not used this before .

Thanks again