Send birthday wish to your friends, family, colleagues using PHP, PHPMailer & Cron
- Create a directory named "phpMailer" in the main directory.
- Open terminal in "phpMailer" directory and run "composer require phpmailer/phpmailer". For more info, goto https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer
- Create app password (not your account password) in your google account. (Help: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/185833?hl=en#:~:text=Create%20%26%20use%20App%20Passwords)
- Set your email id as "Username" & newly generated app password as "Password"
- Edit the birthdays.txt as per your need.(Keep the format as it is)
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Now set up the cronjob at 12:00 am
- Open Terminal
- crontab -e
- Add this line
0 0 * * * sh /path/to/the/directory/sendBirthdayWish.sh