help with sending email at a future date using php?

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cali_dotcom
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help with sending email at a future date using php?

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hi, i'm a newbie to php and i'm building a website right now. i giving the users the option to create and send
news letters. i also want to give them the option of sending the newsletters at a later date i.e they can create the newsletters, choose a date and time they would like to have it sent, and then save it, so that at the said time, the mail would be automatically sent.
can anyone help me out with this?
i heard about cron, but it seems its just for unix users and it seems kind of complicated. does anyone have a simpler/better alternative?
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yacahuma
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Re: help with sending email at a future date using php?

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create a cron
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