sendnotice.php cron job sending daily notifications

[blankoboy]

I set up the sendnotice cron job to run daily at midnight so it will remove expired ads but I notice that it is also sending out daily notifications:

xxx, your ad on xxxxxxx.com for This is a test ad is going to expire in 3 days.

If you have not sold your product and wish to renew your ad for an additional 15 days, please click on the link below:

http://www.xxxxxxx.com/editproduct.php?resell=71

If you have sold your item, please let us know by clicking on this link:

http://www.xxxxxxx.com/editproduct.php?sold=71

Thank you!

Can I set it so that it doesn't do this daily? As I can imagine this will begin to test the patience of visitors to the site. Please advise. Thanks.

[Chuck S]

It will not send out daily reminders. Once a reminder is sent the ad will be marked status not 0 and approved is now 2 which means it will not be scanned again and is expired. This happens once and the user gets emailed once.

[blankoboy]

I cannot seem to figure out why my site keeps sending out renewal notices

username, your ad on mydomain.com for Selling 7 DVD's is going to expire in
14 days.

If you have not sold your product and wish to renew your ad for an additional 14
days, please click on the link below:

http://www.mydomain.com/editproduct.php?resell=76

If you have sold your item, please let us know by clicking on this link:

http://www.mydomain.com/editproduct.php?sold=76

Thank you!

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username, your ad on mydomain.com for Selling 7 DVD's is going to expire in
12 days.

If you have not sold your product and wish to renew your ad for an additional 14
days, please click on the link below:

http://www.mydomain.com/editproduct.php?resell=76

If you have sold your item, please let us know by clicking on this link:

http://www.mydomain.com/editproduct.php?sold=76

Thank you!

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username, your ad on mydomain.com for Selling 7 DVD's is going to expire in
11 days.

If you have not sold your product and wish to renew your ad for an additional 14
days, please click on the link below:

http://www.mydomain.com/editproduct.php?resell=76

If you have sold your item, please let us know by clicking on this link:

http://www.mydomain.com/editproduct.php?sold=76

Thank you!

Any idea why it might be doing this?

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One other item. I don't suppose there is anyway to hide the below area highlighted in red in the receiver's message header information is there?

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[Chuck S]

One expire email is sent once per day till it expires.

[blankoboy]

Originally Posted by Chuck S

One expire email is sent once per day till it expires.

Isn't this counter to what you posted above?

It will not send out daily reminders. Once a reminder is sent the ad will be marked status not 0 and approved is now 2 which means it will not be scanned again and is expired. This happens once and the user gets emailed once

So, if a user posts his/her ad for 2 weeks they are going to get a reminder notice everyday until the 2 weeks are up? If so, is there anyway to reduce this down to until the last 4-5 days? I don't think members will like getting daily reminders and instead find it rather annoying.

[Chuck S]

No it is exactly as I posted. The sendnotice only sends out an email if its within 3 days of expiration

Content visible to verified customers only.

Okay lets disect the code

86399 is how many seconds there are in a day. $today is the time right now. $timediff is the difference between right now and the lastupdate time which is updated everytime the script runs. Therefore if the script is ran more than once a day it is not going to do nothing.

Then lets go here

Content visible to verified customers only.

$expire is set to right now plus 3 days to so the query to pull the ads is it will pull anything that is less than today plus 3 days. So ads expiring 2 weeks from now are never pulled

[blankoboy]

Thanks for the explanation Chuck. Any idea, though, why mine would be sending out expiration/renewal notices for 14, 12, and 11 days in advance?

Would it have anything to with my having set Number of days to show sold/closed ads? (under 'Show Ads Options') to 15?

[Chuck S]

I would not think so but you can try setting it to say 1 and see what happens. You can also in sendnotice.php do this and test

Content visible to verified customers only.

[monkeybars]

I also have this problem. I'm running auctions so I have send notice running every 15 minutes.

Notifications are being sent out 10 days in advance.

Chuck would I also need to make this change to sendnotice?

$expire = mktime($hour1,$min,$sec,$mon,$mday,$year);

in addition to what you have above:

$hour1 = $hour + ($Globals['numdays'] * 24);
$newend = mktime($hour1,$min,$sec,$mon,$mday,$year);

[Chuck S]

I dont know all depends how you want to modify things. Our script is set to pull and send emails for ads 3 days before they expire. So you would see how we do it and then modify it to your needs.