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Birthday Notifications

lucaram
Participant

@lucaram

6 years, 7 months ago

Hi there,

I have extended profile (dashboard > User > Profile Fields) with birthday (day/month/year drop down menu).
How can a user receive notifications for his friends birthdays?

Found something here: :https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/function-examples/bp_notifications_add_notification/

but I don’t know how to modify code.

Could you please assist?

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Henry Wright
Moderator

@henrywright

6 years, 7 months ago

The page you linked to describes how to add a web notification. The example on that page hooks to the bp_activity_sent_mention_email action which means every time bp_activity_sent_mention_email is executed, a web notification will be sent. In your case, you’d still use bp_notifications_add_notification() to send the notification but you will want to send a notification to a particular member only if a friend of that member has a birthday.

The wp_schedule_event() function might be helpful to you: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_schedule_event

lucaram
Participant

@lucaram

6 years, 7 months ago

Thanks Henry,

Unfortunately I struggle to understand how to produce the code, I’m not a code expert like you guys.

Here is what I have and how I would like to implement it for my friend’s birthday:

I have found this that mentioned the “bp_notifications_add_notification()” function:

BuddyPress: Adding Custom Notifications

That is for notifications when someone comments on their blog post, but it is far too complex for me to modify for birthdays I’m afraid 🙁

Any chance somebody could share the code?

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