Installed this mod on my store the other day and wow it is great! This has been the #1 requested feature by my customers and now they have it, and it has already resulted in sales coming in that would not have come in before (or so soon).

I would like to automate the checking and sending of emails now. Stocking status on many of the items on my store is set via a script (running via cron job outside of the zencart environment) that checks my supplier's database every few minutes and generates SQL to update the zencart database. So items can come in stock at 3AM even while I sleep. I would like to email the customer as soon as possible after a stock status change, and a cron job running every few minutes and invoking certain Ceon functions would do the trick.

Conor hints in the back_in_stock_notifications_functions.php that you could use a cron job to call these functions, specifically expungeOutdatedSubscriptionsFromBackInStockNotificationsDB() and sendBackInStockNotifications();. How exactly would that be done? Anyone have any clues or examples? I'm a software engineer by training so don't sugar coat it. Just trying to avoid reinventing the wheel in case anyone has already done this. I'm guessing that at least I'd need to call some sort of zencart main function to let these functions know what database they are to use, etc.

Thanks!
-Mark
President/CEO
Exile Machine LLC