what is birthday_search for???

[scowby]

I am looking at the 'user' table in VBulletin 3.5.4.

There is a field in there birthday_search. What is it for? I can't seem to find ANY reference to it in the code, yet when I update my user profile the field gets updated.

What's the difference in birthday (which is stored as a VARCHAR) and birthday_search (stored as a DATE)? Why are there two items which store the same information?

Thanks for any pointers!!

[Antivirus]

probably best to ask this over at vbulletin.com since it's not modified code

[Paul M]

It's used in the user search functions in the ACP.