Birthday email

Birthday email 1.7

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Compatible XF 2.x versions
  1. 2.3
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Description:

Automatically sends birthday emails to your members.

(Example of Birthday email)

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(Example of Options page)

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(Example of Account preferences page)

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Features:
  • Automatically sends birthday emails to your members.
  • Follows "Show day and month of birth" privacy setting.
  • Follows "Receive birthday email" preference setting.
  • All phrases start with birthdayemail_ for your convenience.
Cron entry:

This add-on uses the XenForo Cron entries function. By default it will run early morning hours. If you want to adjust the time the Cron entry runs, you need to enable development mode. Add the following code to your config.php file:

$config['development']['enabled'] = true;

Set the Birthday email Cron entry to run early in the morning:

Note: be sure to remove development mode line in your config.php file once you finished editing your cron entry.

Options setting:

Select next day

The following option needs to be selected if your cron entry runs the previous day of members birthdays.

Image URL

To include an image like shown in the email example, you can copy the 'birthday_cake.jpg' file located in the add-on directory to a directory of your choice. Then add the Image URL to the options page.

Database changes:

This add-on will add a field called andy_birthday_email to your xf_user table.
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AndyB
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Latest updates

  1. See description

    Birthday email v1.7 changes: Now has 'Receive birthday email' in account preference page.
  2. See description

    Birthday email v1.6 changes: Added code to ensure image in the email is contained in the div.
  3. See description

    Birthday email v1.5 changes: Added Test username to options page.
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