Member's birthday -> CARD !

[Webby]

Would it be very hard to send a card (automated !) when a member's birthday is due ?

I have sendcard (http://www.sendcard.org)  installed, and came up with the idea to combine it with the list of members I have on my board.

Is there somebody who can make a mod for it (with or without sendcard, it could also be a standard card-template )

[tdodnz]

well this is easy I could make it as an addon to my AutoMsg mod which sends a PM and/or posts in a topic on registration.

[Thomas]

well this is easy I could make it as an addon to my AutoMsg mod which sends a PM and/or posts in a topic on registration.

I would very much like this add on.

/MR.T

[tdodnz]

ill see if I have the time as there are a few minor problems with the existing ones install it will have to be boardmod. We will see I will post back later if I have made it unless someone else wants to make it.

[David]

I would personally write this as a seperate script designed to be called by cron nightly.

[tdodnz]

I would just build it into subs and call the function each time on load of index.php just auto send one to themselves as such and say its from admin and pull stuff from db and so on very basic. Also this would be best as its own mod i think.

[David]

I would just build it into subs and call the function each time on load of index.php just auto send one to themselves as such and say its from admin and pull stuff from db and so on very basic. Also this would be best as its own mod i think.

Problem with that is then if someone doesn't visit your forum on a certain day then any birthday cards that should be sent that day won't be.

[Webby]

No visitors for a whole day ?!

I have a cron job for the sendcard, and thousands of hits/visitors a day, so be my guest and try to make it

[tdodnz]

hmm regarding what i said before it would have to auto send it no matter who the user with the browser is, there is no way to automate this process. Yet as i said before it could send it to themselves and have a table in the db that if the card was sent then it sets this value to the year it was sent then it checks if its a new year and if not carrys on not sending but if its a new year and its after there birthday it will send the card it would work perfectly. Not having people online doesn't matter it just sends it when they come online to save traffic but they won't know it just prints the correct date in.

(Sorry bout the long single sentence)

[Maemi]

That sounds like a good idea for a mod.  Have wished for that myself a few times.  

I'd rather an email notice be sent than a pm at the forum.

Am fully confident someone here will develop something marvelous soon!

[Dr_Michael]

Yeah email is better idea! And I suppose it is not so difficult?