I am looking for a script that will allow me to send emails to my family to remind them about Birthdays. <br />(If another person forgets my birthday I'll....)<br />(...I digress)<br />Does anyone know of somthing that I can use to do that? I have used happybirthday.com, but Im looking for more flexibility without ads.<!--content-->
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" border="0" alt="wink.gif" /><br /><br />EDIT: Ooops... I posted this before reading that you had used happybirthday.com before...<br />Well, I'd say one of these sites is the easiest choice but you can always create a script that is run by a cron job everyday and checks a database to see if there's any birthday entry for the current day. If so, it will send an e-mail to the corresponding person.<br /><br />Or, you can also search hotscripts.com for it, because I'm sure someone already did something like this <img src="http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="
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Thanks for the link to birthdayalarms. It doesn't appear that they limit the number of reminders you can set. I think I will go with that unless anyone has any other experience with anything else...<!--content-->
So if I did take Raul's Idea and do a cron job, is there any tutorial where I can learn how that works? I am completely lost as to how to do cron jobs. Even a tutorial as to how to back up your site would be helpfully.<!--content-->
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" border="0" alt="wink.gif" /><br /><br />EDIT: Ooops... I posted this before reading that you had used happybirthday.com before...<br />Well, I'd say one of these sites is the easiest choice but you can always create a script that is run by a cron job everyday and checks a database to see if there's any birthday entry for the current day. If so, it will send an e-mail to the corresponding person.<br /><br />Or, you can also search hotscripts.com for it, because I'm sure someone already did something like this <img src="http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="tongue.gif" /><!--content-->Thanks for the link to birthdayalarms. It doesn't appear that they limit the number of reminders you can set. I think I will go with that unless anyone has any other experience with anything else...<!--content-->
So if I did take Raul's Idea and do a cron job, is there any tutorial where I can learn how that works? I am completely lost as to how to do cron jobs. Even a tutorial as to how to back up your site would be helpfully.<!--content-->
Try here: <a href="http://help.totalchoicehosting.com/id207.htm" target="_blank">http://help.totalchoicehosting.com/id207.htm</a><!--content-->