Solution to generate invoices on monthly basis automatically?

What is the solution to generate invoices every 2 weeks automatically? Cron Jobs?

I have multiple orders in the tbl_order table, I want to generate an invoices for every 2 weeks (for billing).

    - tbl_order table
    OrderID (PK)
    ShopID (FK)
    CustomerID (FK)
    Status
    Total
    OrderDate

    - invoice table
    InvoiceID (PK)
    InvoiceDate
    InvoiceStatus

   - invoice开发者_C百科order 
     invoiceorderID (PK)
     InvoiceID (FK)
     OrderID (FK)

The invoice date for Feb would be: 01 - 15 February, 16 - 28 February

and on March: 01 - 15 March, 16 - 31 March

So for example, generate invoice between 01 - 15 March on tbl_order.ShopID = 5

How can that be done if using Cron Jobs / PHP or alternative solution?

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To assign cron task, use tutorial like this:

http://www.thefactory.ro/php-cron-tutorial

Next, in PHP handler query database for every order that was in that time range and create report based on your needs.

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Assuming you are running on *nix, you should use cron - man crontab.

If you wanted to run the job on say the 1st and 15th of every month @ midnight you would use:

0 0 1,15 * *

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It goes without saying generally but I will say it anyway. Don't forget to save the invoice data in a separate table of your database for historical look up/tax purposes. This way you can store an invoice number and other variables such as paid and any discounts being applied.