Is it possible to schedule custom emails?

[Isaac Asher]

I have a custom client field which I use to store a date.  I would like it if I could schedule an email to go to the client on that particular date (and/or in consideration of other custom fields) via the cron job, if possible. 

Does anyone know if it's possible to add such automation via the admin?  If not, where can I go to learn more about the method to do this?  I can work with PHP, HTML, CSS easily enough, so that won't be an issue. 

Thanks in advance!

[Kian]

As far as I know not via Admin interface. You'll need an action hook like this one.

function customPrefix_PreCronJob()
{
    // Get clients matching your criteria in $clients variable

    foreach($clients as $client)
    {
        $postData['messagename'] = 'Your Message';
        $postData['id'] = $client['id'];
        $postData['customvars']['something'] = $client['something'];

        localAPI('SendEmail', $postData);
    }
}

add_hook('PreCronJob', 1, 'customPrefix_PreCronJob');

 

[Isaac Asher]

Thank you so much, @Kian! This is very helpful!!