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I want to run a background scheduler in my web application. This scheduler will check the current time and if it matches with the programmed time then it sends a E-mail. How can i create background Scheduler ?
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It depends if you want to run a script in background via command line, than you can use exec command: exec
Or if you want to start another thread, than you can use pthreads
If you want to have a job that executes at a certain time or in certain intervals, you can set up a cronjob. This tutorial is very helpful, and if you are on linux you can look at this documentation.
You need to setup cron job. You may find more information a link!