8. Cron Job Automate Social Network Web Site Maintenance PHP Tutorial

Lesson Code: http://www.developphp.com/video/PHP/Cron-Job-Automate-Social-Network-Web-Site-Maintenance-Tutorial
Learn to automate PHP MySQL web site maintenance tasks with Cron Jobs. You can set them to execute at any interval you like. In this example we create a PHP cron job that will delete all non-activate users after X days. If you do not clear the database of these users periodically your system will become clogged with non-activated users.

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