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Re: how to create a cron job to get pdf letters of contacts with upcoming birthdays
July 12, 2012, 10:11:22 am

that code (along with most of civi code) gets most of its information from the form and is not "independent".

Over time we are factoring things out, so they can be invoked via an API too

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Re: how to create a cron job to get pdf letters of contacts with upcoming birthdays
July 12, 2012, 11:40:10 am
Is it possible to populate this form manually ? to prepare it for the civicrm class & methods ?

if not, is the task PDF already supported by the API ?

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Re: how to create a cron job to get pdf letters of contacts with upcoming birthdays
July 12, 2012, 02:27:51 pm

1. possibly, but i dont think its worth the effort, IMO

2. no

i think the best path forward would be to restrucure the code in /CRM/Contact/Form/Task/PDFLetterCommon.php to be form independent. i.e potentially push most of the work to CRM/Contact/BAO/PDF.php or something like that

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Re: how to create a cron job to get pdf letters of contacts with upcoming birthdays
July 12, 2012, 04:47:38 pm
That's really easy to extend the api with a getbirthday

Create the function civicrm_api3_contact_getbirthday into Contact/GetBirthday and you have it available

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Re: how to create a cron job to get pdf letters of contacts with upcoming birthdays
July 13, 2012, 12:52:30 am
Hello Xavier,

Yes I agree this is easy but this is not what I am looking for.

I want to perform the task to print PDF letter to these contacts that have their birthday in the coming month.
This should be done programmatically (in order to be launched from a cron)...

I search how I could reuse the already defined methods and class...

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