I think ini might even be better for this task.
say, each day has it's names:
[bsdays]
2/12/2005=john,ken,larissa,booboo,

and then you could just fire it with:
Code:

$todays=readprofilestring(@scriptdir+"\specialday.ini","bsdays",@date)
if instr($todays,@userid+",")
 "hello babe"
endif
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