send Birthday Greeting with WP-SMS

Hello,

Thank you for opening the topic this needs a custom cronjob to check the date from the database every day, but I’m thinking that might be a good feature to add this in WP SMS.

However, if you are familiar with WordPress Event/Cronjob, you can register an event to do that like this

function send_birthday_sms_greetings() {
    // Ensure this function only runs once a day
    if (get_transient('sent_birthday_sms_for_today')) {
        return;
    }

    $current_date = current_time('Y-m-d');

    // Query for users whose birthday is today
    $args = array(
        'meta_query' => array(
            array(
                'key' => 'birthdate', // Replace with actual meta key for birthdate
                'value' => $current_date,
                'compare' => 'LIKE'
            ),
        ),
    );
    $users = get_users($args);

    // Send SMS to each user
    foreach ($users as $user) {
        $message = "Happy Birthday! We hope you have a fantastic day!";
        $phone_number = get_user_meta($user->ID, 'phone_number', true); // Replace with actual meta key for phone number

        if ($phone_number) {
            wp_sms_send($phone_number, $message); // Replace with actual function to send SMS
        }
    }

    // Set a transient to prevent the function from running again today
    set_transient('sent_birthday_sms_for_today', true, DAY_IN_SECONDS);
}

// Hook the function into WP-Cron
if (!wp_next_scheduled('send_birthday_sms_greetings_hook')) {
    wp_schedule_event(strtotime('06:00:00'), 'daily', 'send_birthday_sms_greetings_hook');
}

add_action('send_birthday_sms_greetings_hook', 'send_birthday_sms_greetings');

I haven’t tested it yet but need to be test.