[kronolith] SMS reminder for kronolith

[Yedidia Klein]

thanks for the info,
looks like I should patch kronolith/lib/Scheduler/kronolith.php to send 
sms instead of emails
OR let the users choose his notification settings (as u wrote)
I'll do first the first way.

thanks

--Yedidia

Chuck Hagenbuch wrote:

>Quoting Yedidia Klein <yedidia at jct.ac.il>:
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>>it's easy to find in DB the starting time and the alarm delay.
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>... so you're reimplementing all of the recurrence login in Perl for this (well,
>looking at your script, you're not, so it's going to generate a lot of false
>alerts)? Doing this directly from the db isn't going to work very well.
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>>I have two open issues:
>>a) how to find user cell number
>>        1) get it from turba (I don't like it cause normally a user
>>isn't putting his data in turba and there is no username info in turba)
>>        2) add another kronolith pref in horde_pref table. - need
>>apropriate place in kronolith config page.
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>Pretty easy either way. Ideally, users should have generalized notification
>settings somewhere.
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>>b) how to make the SMS queue ? an option that I was thinking about was
>>to check every 5 minutes (for example) the alarm that will happen in the
>>coming 5 minutes and set UNIX "at" that will send the SMSes.. (this
>>won't work for MS users - but this can be a feature :))
>>in this way if someone will put an alarm that should alarm in less that
>>5 minutes there won't be any SMS...
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>>what do you think ?
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>Take a look at horde/lib/Scheduler.php.
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>>p.s. I saw on archives that someone already thought about it a year ago,
>>did someone get to it ? maybe there is already a tool for this ?
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>Not entirely, but look at kronolith/scripts/eventd.
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>-chuck
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>Charles Hagenbuch, <chuck at horde.org>
>The alligators were there, too, in a bathtub inside the house.
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