Birthday month in users post

[cditty]

This will place the user's birthday month in the user's post. Based on thread found here. (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=41943)

Install time: 1 minute

Attachment in following post.

This is my first hack and there is really nothing to it.

Enjoy

CDitty

[cditty]

Here is the attachment.

CDitty

[Neo]

Interesting. Nice small hack cditty :)

[cditty]

Thanks.

[Floris]

Great :)
fnx :P

[Bald Bouncer]

thanks for the hack...been needing this ;)

[Admin]

Nice one indeed. If our postbit wasn't so crowded I'd install it here. :D

[Lionel]

wish instead of month it displays the zodiac sign

[cditty]

Should be really simple. I'll work on this tonight after I get in.

Chris

[cditty]

Well, I thought that I would be able to do this fairly easy. But I can't. This is the code I was going to implement within it, but this will not give you a "true" zodiac.
http://www.phpwizard.net/resources/phpMisc/scripts/pretty/zodiac.php3

Perhaps someone here can do this with greater efficency that I would be able to.

Chris

[Itworx4me]

I like this hack. Is there anyway to get the Day along with the month to show up there too?

[cditty]

Sure. Just change this....
date('M'
with this
date('M-d'

If you would rather show the full month name instead of the abbr version, then just change the M to a F. Be sure to have the M & F in caps.

Chris

[Itworx4me]

Thank you CDitty
It worked like a charm

[Admin]

cditty, what's the problem with that zodiac code? You need to use the numeric form of the month (1), not Jan. :)

[cditty]

I was thinking/hoping that code would be a quick down & dirty cut & paste job. But thinking about it, anything I might be able to come up with won't have the actual zodiac signs on it. ie...Capricorn is in Dec and Jan.

Chris

[Admin]

Why? That function you showed us takes care of that, all you need to do is give it the month and day, it'll return you the sign.

[cditty]

With many thanks to FireFly, here is a version for zodiac signs.

Chris

[Eniyi]

For the zodiac signs version, when I put "$post['sign']" in the postbit, I'm getting this error.

Parse error: parse error, expecting `T_STRING' or `T_VARIABLE' or `T_NUM_STRING' in functions.php(304) : eval()'d code on line 14

[Admin]

$post[sign], without quoting the index name.

[Eniyi]

Thanks. It works now, but in the instructions, it says
"Place $post['sign'] in someplace in the postbit template where you want it to appear."

[Boofo]

How did you get it to work? I got all sorts of errors when I did it without the quotes. :)

Originally posted by Eniyi
Thanks. It works now, but in the instructions, it says
"Place $post['sign'] in someplace in the postbit template where you want it to appear."

[Boofo]

Is there a way to check and see if the user has entered a birthday in their profile and if not, not show anything (like Birthday= and then a blank space)? I want it to show up if they have entered a birthday and have nothing show up if they haven't.

Originally posted by cditty
This will place the user's birthday month in the user's post. Based on thread found here. (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=41943)

Install time: 1 minute

Attachment in following post.

This is my first hack and there is really nothing to it.

Enjoy

CDitty

[Boofo]

I ran into a strange problem. If the user doesn't have a birthday listed in their profile, it will always say November 30 as their birthday in the postbit template. Any way around this?