Help!! Eek!

[The_FedEx_Guy]

Hi all,
Have a tough problem:

I am changing content on my website and I have to click a link to submit the
changes, is there anyway I can auto submit these say around 11pm at night, so I
do not have to click the link myself.

thanx in advance

[darrel]

> Have a tough problem:

>
> I am changing content on my website and I have to click a link to submit

the

> changes, is there anyway I can auto submit these say around 11pm at night,

so I

> do not have to click the link myself.
>
> thanx in advance

Uhh...what 'link'? Is this something your content management system has set
up? If so, then you'll want to have your CMS administrators do this for you.

-Darrel

[The_FedEx_Guy]

Hi,
I have a link to publish the changed data on the website. But I need it to
automate it so I do not get called at after work hours to publish the changes.

I'm not using any content management system. I'm sorry I cannot give more
information, is there a way of using a timer based on the server's clock?

[darrel]

> I have a link to publish the changed data on the website.

WHAT link? A link is just that...a link...it doesn't *do* anything.

Now, the page that you link to, upon page load MIGHT be triggering
something, but I don't know...you need to give us more information here.
What is the service that is getting updated? It is a database? FTP transfer?
What?

-Darrel

[The_FedEx_Guy]

Hi, Sorry

Ok I have a database (in a MySQL dbase) with prices and product info, and
these get changed or added daily.

This updated info does not show on the site striaght away, as its in a reserve
area of the database (i think)

I have a link in my control panel that publishes the changed data to be live
on the site.

So when I update something, nothing happens till I click the link. I would
like to have the data published automatically

[darrel]

> I have a link in my control panel that publishes the changed data to be
live

> on the site.
>
> So when I update something, nothing happens till I click the link. I

would

> like to have the data published automatically

When you click that link, something happens. What? I don't know...you're
going to have to talk to whoever developed the control panel for you. You
don't want to time the link (since you can't) but rather you want to time
whatever process happens WHEN you click that link.

There are various ways to have things update automatically...I don't know
about MySQL, but MS SQL allows you to create data transformation packages
and then schedule them to run at a given time. We use this to update push
out our staging server data to our live site overnight.

But I think what you are asking is just some way to click on that link at
night. The only thing I can think of is to buy some sort of software
scripting package for your desktop computer and set that up to run at a
certain time each day. If you are on a Mac, maybe this is something you can
do using applescript.

-Darrel

[JLD.MX]

Server executable, aka .exe. It will take a server side execution based on the
servers clock to perform this. Not all host providers (unless you host your
own site) allow executables on the server for security reasons. In the case of
a dedicated server, that may differ.