Note: This documentation is a work in progress. If you see an error or typo, or would like to contribute to the documentation, let me know. If you have questions, comments or suggestions, post them in the tasks Yahoo! Group.
How can I receive a daily e-mail of my current tasks?

The email_reminders.php page will send an e-mail to the address specified in config.php with your overdue tasks, today's tasks, upcoming tasks and high (and highest) priority tasks.

CRON access is required on Mac OS X, Unix, Linux boxes for running scheduled tasks (There is an event scheduler on Windows too, I'm not familier with it). If you do not have CRON access, you may want to check out Psuedo-CRON or a similar solution.

Using CRON on a UNIX/Linux/Mac OS X server you can set up a CRON job to load the email_reminders.php page at whatever interval you want to receive the email. On windows, I know you can schedule a task to do the same thing - someone tell me how and I'll add it here.

Here is the syntax for 3 ways to hit the page at 3am using CRON.

This way should be most compatible:

0 3 * * * wget -q http://www.example.com/tasks/email_reminders.php

if you are using .htaccess to secure your directory, remember to include your username and password in the URL (yes, this is a potential security risk).

0 3 * * * wget -q http://username:password@www.example.com/tasks/email_reminders.php

This way should work fine as long as you have lynx installed:

0 3 * * * lynx -source http://www.example.com/tasks/email_reminders.php

if you are using .htaccess to secure your directory, remember to include your username and password in the URL (yes, this is a potential security risk).

0 3 * * * lynx -source http://username:password@www.example.com/tasks/email_reminders.php

This is the most secure, but you need to know the actual paths involved:

0 3 * * * /usr/local/bin/php -q /www/www.example.com/tasks/email_reminders.php

Last Modified: July 31, 2003 @ 8:20 pm