Automated Processes
Customers post 'projects' to my site. These 'projects' are closed after 10 days. I could run a script on the default.php page that detects this, but it seems a waste of resources to run it everytime someone visits the site. Is there a way around this, for example the first visitor to the site in any, say, 3 hour period, runs the script & switches the most recently outdated projects from open to closed?
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