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i need a advice, basically i have a multistep wizard form, and in this wizard, for marketing purposes i need to save in the first step (name, email, address) to the database, case the user dont finish all the wizard steps.
But i need to create a email notification to the administrator case the user doesnt finish the form. So what i think was for example in cpanel create a cronjob that verifies in my database for records that doesnt have completed the multistep and than send a email to the administrator with there emails.

But there is a issue, i need to update a column in my records, in my case a column called “verified” that is boolean and when the mail is sent but to true so that every time the cronjob fires up dont send always emails to the administrator.

But it looks like that cronjob only supports Get method, does anybody have a advice?

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    Request method (Get, post, put,…) is http-specific. When you run your code in the terminal (cronjob) you do not have a request method.

    You should create a script (or command depending if you use a framework) that checks everything and changes the value in the database.

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    Request methods (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, etc.) are HTTP-specific, not CRON jobs.

    But it looks like that cronjob only supports GET method

    This is wrong. Cron jobs are to call specific file(s) on a specified time interval. You can read it here: Cron Jobs

    In your case, you need to following things:

    • When the form is partially completed, you are saving the data in the
      database. So, you can save using 2 columns in the database, 1 is to check the users who have not completed the form and 2nd is to check if the email is already sent to them.

    • Suppose 2 columns are is_incomplete (to check users who have not
      completed the form) and is_followup_email_sent (to check if the email
      is sent for further follow ups).

    • In your CRON file path, you don’t need to specify any GET param until
      its needed. You just need to call a file placed on your server and in
      that file, you need to connect to the database to get users where
      is_incomplete = 1 (form not completed) and then make another
      function to send email to this list of users and set
      is_followup_email_sent = 1 (that means email is already sent)

    • Whenever your CRON file is called, you just need to make a check at
      the top that you get all those users where is_incomplete = 1 and
      is_followup_email_sent = 0 i.e. users who have not completed their
      form and admin email is not sent to them yet.

    I hope this will help you! Cheers.

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