reminder email with timezone

[seankoo]

Hi Nick,

Thank you for your quick release of 1.2.3.
It looks pretty good now.

One minor thing that I've found is...
How timezone is working with reminder email?
My server is using pacific time but system is being used in central time.
So, I set $conf['app']['timezone'] = 2; in config.php.
However, when I set the reminder email, it is only work with pacific time.
So I get the reminder email after the reservation time.
Please advise.

Thank you!!!

[Nick]

The reminder script adjusts for timezones when searching for reservations.  Is the script not scheduled often enough?  If it's only running say, once an hour, you won't get most reminders until it's too late.

[littomalt]

Hi

i don't get reminders eather. It seems that many in this forum has the same problem.

Has anybody made a "how to guide" to implement this feature?


I would like to make reminders 5,10,15,30,1h, 2, h ...24h and this is written in confog.php, and i can choose to set this reminder in web interface. But i dont get any reminders...

Thanks in advance
LoA

[Nick]

You need to schedule a job that runs every 5 minutes or so.  The instructions are in readme.html.

[littomalt]

Thanks for answer!

I'm not a programer but i have experience in MS-DOS and basic (1980's) i understand quite a bit ;-))

But i don't understand what a cron job is, neither what to do with send_remainder.php (except that i can write it manually as url in browser and press enter:-)

I have hosted my domain and i dont have rigths to use the shell on the server.

Since i need to make this scedule go automatically as a cron job from my server i hope that some of you could tell what to do.

I know i ask a lot, but i still hope you all bear over with me!

LoA.

[Nick]

If this is a hosted server, you may want to contact your ISP to see if they allow you to run cron jobs.  Most of the ones I have experience with do.