CBSubs triggering PHP code ?

I have a PHP code that is sending out an SMS based on the user id. It works as an auto action which I can trigger manually with the "Internal action URL"  but I would like it to trigger automatically 14 days after the subscriptions have run out - is that possible in any way ?

CB Auto Actions doesn't have a scheduler built in so no there isn't anyway to schedule an action to run after a specific event. That's something we'll be able to support in CB 3.x as we've plans to implement a generic job queue that'd be able to do this and more.

For now the only thing I can think of is to use CBSubs Mailer to schedule an email to be sent then act on the onCPayBeforeMailerEmailMessageSent trigger to send your SMS. The triggers variables are as follows.



You could also have it to try to send a private message and act on its trigger if you don't want to send an email, but email + SMS might be a pretty good reminder combo.



Both methods will fire the below trigger if successfully sent and is another trigger option


All 3 give you the most important thing, their user id, as the first variable. The second being automessage_id, the second variable, that'll be the id of the mailer being sent and you'll want to condition against that so you only send the SMS for that specific mailer.

So if I understand you correctly: in the top of the auto actions code field I would insert:


if ($this->automessage_id != 105) exit;

To only send sms' when the mailer with id=105 is fired ?

..and would I not still be able to use [user_id] in the code field to get the user id or should i use:$this->user_id

So if I understand you correctly: in the top of the auto actions code field I would insert:


if ($this->automessage_id != 105) exit;

To only send sms' when the mailer with id=105 is fired ?

No, you can't use $this directly. You need to access them as var1, var2, var3, etc.. $this->automessage_id is var2 so you can substitute its value in with [var2] or access it directly with $variables in a Code action when using PHP. Example as follows using the substitution.

..and would I not still be able to use [user_id] in the code field to get the user id or should i use:$this->user_id

Use [var1] to get the recipient user id. You can also set User to Manually and select Variable 1 for the User Variable parameter. Now you can use normal substitutions like [user_id], [username], etc.. to get that users information.

Perfect - thank you!