Just make sure when you *do* set your hosting up that you get shell (command line) access of some kind so you can set up the cron jobs.
regards Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks for your help Daniel! I havent got hosting sorted yet so its > something Ill have to set up later. > I guess I can set up the custom command and do it manually for now. > Phil > > On Nov 12, 5:29 pm, Daniel Roseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> On Nov 12, 5:02 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >> >> >>> Hi all, >>> Just building my first site with django and Ive hit my first snag that >>> I cant find in the documentation. >>> Just as an example scenario, suppose I have my model- >>> class User(models.Model): >>> signup_date = models.DateTimeField() >>> full_user_date = models.DateTimeField() >>> full_user = models.BooleanField() >>> I want to make it so that when we arrive at full_user_date django >>> flicks full_user over to 1 and sends the user an email. >>> I imagine I could do it in the views.py, but it would be dependant on >>> someone visiting the page. I think it would be more effecient to just >>> do a check once a day, thats all I need. How can i set it up so django >>> does a check on the database after a set time? >>> any ideas? >>> Phil >> You need some sort of job that runs periodically on the server. If >> you're using Linux (or a Mac), cron is ideal for this. (I think >> Windows has something like a Schedule Server for this job.) >> >> Just create a standalone script that imports the Django models just as >> you would do in a view. Perhaps the best way of doing this is to >> create a custom manage.py command - >> seehttp://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/custom-management-commands... >> for how this is done. >> >> You can then set cron to run manage.py your_command once a day to do >> the update. >> -- >> DR. > > > -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
