How to develop a birthday reminders and greetings in Laravel 8
- kodekrib
- January 4, 2023
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Here are the steps you can follow to develop a birthday reminder and greeting module in an existing member table using the date_of_birth
field in Laravel 8:
- Create a new command by running the following artisan command:
php artisan make:command SendBirthdayGreetings
This will create a new file app/Console/Commands/SendBirthdayGreetings.php
.
- In the
handle
method of theSendBirthdayGreetings
Command, retrieve the members who have their birthday today. You can use thewhereDate
method of the query builder to filter the members by theirdate_of_birth
field:
$today = Carbon::today();
$members = Member::whereDate('date_of_birth', $today)->get();
- Loop through the members and send a birthday greeting to each member using your preferred method (e.g. email, SMS).
- Schedule the command to run every day at midnight using the
schedule
method of theKernel
class inapp/Console/Kernel.php
:
$schedule->command('birthday:greetings')->daily();
That’s it! You now have a birthday reminder and greeting module in your Laravel app.