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Ah yes... if you created the user after the script ran, then it's too late. I was thinking about that too but the solution is complicated in that you would have to intercept new user registrations to see if it happens to be their birthday. Also, if a user logs on and changes (or adds) their birthday after the script runs, they won't get one either.

I'm glad it's working... I was scratching my head on that one.
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Yes I am glad as well!   Thanks again for creating the mod and assisting me to get it working.  Now I just wanna tweak the email to have some custom saying on it that is relevant to the site. 
 
You should zip up the bdayemail.asp and common.asp page and add them to this topic so that everyone can use it... and also post it in the MOD Index as I am sure there are lots of people out there that would use it.
 
I don't mind doing zipping up the files but I don't wanna steal your glory!
 
You da man!
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Looks good.  I think I'll try this.
 
One tip for large forum boards or boards with slow SMTP servers, you will not want to have this script triggered by user activity, but rather scheduled to run everyday by Windows.  Otherwise that unlucky visitor will have the page waiting to load while it sends all the e-mails.  When the e-mails are sent, the page will then load.  I already have this problem with some popular threads where a lot of people subscribe.  When someone posts a new post, it takes a long time before they get redirected back to the thread because its busy sending out e-mails.
 
For smaller boards, its probably not as much of an issue.  But something to be aware of when you grow.
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THANKS!

Good point!
On a popular board, the first hit would likely be in the middle of the night by a search engine or something. Once that first hit is through there is no more sendmail.
 
It's a good idea to schedule the event anyway and I was actually looking at the DTS schedule idea from DP. But for this I was trying to make it simple.
 
The number of emails sent would be relatively low unless you had an amazingly popular forum. (Hope for this we all do.)
 
One of the biggest forums I've ever seen personally...
 
Posts: 26,947,989
Members: 159,035
Threads: 3,349,189
 
I looked at their calendar and during this month, they do not exceed 200 birthdays in any given day. Sending 200 emails shouldn't take too long.
 
 


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Originally posted by dfrancis dfrancis wrote:

I looked at their calendar and during this month, they do not exceed 200 birthdays in any given day. Sending 200 emails shouldn't take too long.
Unless your web server or SMTP server is slow.  But if that is the case, a hardware upgrade is usually in order anyway.
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