making sending email automatically (cron job)

Question

I'm sending a email using php:

use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;

require 'Exception.php';
require 'PHPMailer.php';
require 'SMTP.php';
require 'PHPMailerAutoload.php';

$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->IsSMTP(); // telling the class to use SMTP
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // enable SMTP authentication
$mail->SMTPSecure = "ssl"; // sets the prefix to the servier
$mail->Host = "mijn.antagonist.nl"; // sets GMAIL as the SMTP server
$mail->Port = 465; // set the SMTP port for the GMAIL server
$mail->Username = username;// GMAIL username
$mail->Password = pssword;// GMAIL password
$mail-> SMTPDebug = 2; //debug class when error

//Typical mail data
$query =  ("SELECT email FROM ps_customer where id_customer = 1");
$result = $query;
$to_email = (string)'@$result';
$subject = "test";
$txt = "test mail";
$headers = "From: test@test.nl";

//check of $to_email is not null
    if($to_email != null){

        mail($to_email,$subject,$txt,$headers);
        echo "mail is sent to : $to_email " ;

    } else {

        echo "failed";

    }

And this works for me, when I run this class it sends one email every time I run this class.

I'm trying to make it so that the emails will send automatically. I have heard about a cronjob but i can't figure out where and how to use it (I don't use linux).

Has someone an idea to make this work for me?

CronJobs are related to Linux. So, if it is not Linux you're using, what are you using? — KIKO Software, Nov 22 '18 at 08:22
I'm using windows, so if you don't use linux is it possibol to use cronjob or? — , Nov 22 '18 at 08:35
in windows there "Scheduled Tasks" which is like cronjobs see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/295386/how-to-run-a-php-file-in-a-scheduled-task-windows-task-scheduler — R. Martin, Nov 22 '18 at 08:40
so your saying that's not possibol to use cronjob on windows to automatically send a email?? — , Nov 22 '18 at 08:47
yes, it's not possible to use cronjob in windows (because it's a linux feature) but you can use Scheduled Tasks to send email (it works the same way as cronjob) — R. Martin, Nov 22 '18 at 09:02

making sending email automatically (cron job)

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