Sends a birthday e-mail to all the members having their birtday on the current day.

A, connected to the Contao Cron, function that checks daily, if a member of a configured member group has its birthday and sends a birthday greeting via e-mail.

Features:

• Creating different configurations for different member groups
• Prioritization of configurations (important for members of several configuredmember groups)
• E-mail in text and HTML format
• Personalization of the e-mail by insert tags (see section: Insert-Tags)
• Creating different email texts for different configurations
• Developer mode with developer e-mail and bypass the date checking (Settings) and additional debug information (System log)

Characteristics

• There can only be one configuration for each member group.
• It will only send e-mails to active members of active member groups.
• Set if duplicates of e-mails are allowed in the systemsettings (important for members of several configuredmember groups).
• After daily execution a message will be added to system log.

Installation

• install via "Extension catalog"
• If the installation was done manually, the extensions [associategroups] and [ExtendedEmailRegex] has to be installed too.

Inserttags

• {{birthdaychild::*}} ... This tag returns all the values of the current member (replace * with any attribute of the member, e.g. firstname or company, the attribute password is not allowed).
• {{birthdaychild::salutation}} ... This tag returns the salutation of the member (depending on gender).
• {{birthdaychild::name}} ... This tag returns first and last name of the member.
• {{birthdaychild::groupname}} ... This tag returns the name of the member group of the current configuration.
• {{birthdaychild::age}} ... This tag returns the age of the member.
• {{birthdaymailer::email}} ... This tag returns the e-mail the configured sender.
• {{birthdaymailer::name}} ... This tag returns the name of the configured sender.

Errorreport

• Tracker: http://contao-forge.org/projects/birthdaymailer/issues
• Forum: http://www.contao-community.de/showthread.php?24736-BirthdayMailer-Geburtstagsmailer

Annotation

• If a member group is deleted, the corresponding Birthdaymailer configuration will be deleted too!
• The Contao Cron is no real Cron, it may be triggered (for example by Cron from your hosting package)!