Sending Mail To Users

[ArunK]

When sending mail to users, How would I make it so it automatically adds a users username in the email?

Would it be: "Hi $userid" or "Hi $username" or something else?
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So if I had a user named Bob, it would automatically write "Hi Bob"
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Thanks.

[Andrew111888]

This is next to the mail form in the ACP:

In the message, you may use $userid, $username, $email, $activateid, and $activatelink.

$activateid will be the activation number the user must use to activate his/her account. $activatelink will be the URL that a user needs to visit to be activated. Note: These will only be defined to users in the "Users Awaiting Email Confirmation" group.

Note: you can not send passwords using this form as they are encrypted in the database. Please link to the 'lost password' form instead.

[ArunK]

I have seen that, but still.. which one would it be? $userid or $username? I don't want to send the same message twice.. that would be considered spamming.

[Andrew111888]

$userid is their userid, $username is their username.

So $username would be Bob if their username was Bob.

[ArunK]

Thanks! I will have to keep that in mind next time I sent a message to the members of the forum.