Member's Age in Postbit & Getinfo Profile (automatically calculated from birthday)

[Erwin]

Member's Age in Postbit & Getinfo Profile - by Dr. Erwin Loh
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I requested this a while back. Since no one has released a hack like this, I worked out how to do it.

NOTE: This hack automatically shows the age of the person calculated from the birthday entered (it's not a separate input). If there is no birthdate or birthyear, the age doesn't show up automatically.

1) Postbit hack
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This hack basically places the member's age underneath his join date (or wherever you want) in the postbit, like this:


Registered: July 2000
Age: 18
Location: USA
Posts: 102


If the member has not entered his birth-year, then the age will NOT show up at all, like this:


Registered: July 2000
Location: USA
Posts: 102


This hack requires 1 file edit (functions.php), and 1 template edit (postbit).

2) Getinfo Profile hack
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This adds the member's age in their profile.

I've added this to the installation text file. It's a matter of editing members.php and the getinfo template.

Installation text file here:

[Erwin]

Also, this doesn't add any additional queries to your forums. :)

[Deska]

Nice hack man, thank's...

[Schorsch]

Thank you Erwin!!

useful hack and very easy installation :)

cu
Schorsch

[Erwin]

I updated the code - there was a bug in the original installation file - please clear your cache and view the new code now. :)

[Vile]

Awesome hack. Installed it, works like a charm:)

[Floris]

Installed, works very nice. So easy to add. And I am happy it doesn't add another query.

[Unknown553]

Awesome hack man. *installed*

[[D]Vincent]

I wouldn't say it's awesome, I don't see what's so great about displaying the user's age, of course I'm admin of a FF site so that wouldn't interest me. Nice job though.

[Vile]

Originally posted by [D]Vincent
I wouldn't say it's awesome, I don't see what's so great about displaying the user's age, of course I'm admin of a FF site so that wouldn't interest me. Nice job though.

Good point, but in that case, couldn't you say the same thing about a users post count, location, etc? :)

[Erwin]

Okay, I've updated the hack again, this time for the LAST time. I had to modify the hack because certain members had their ages off by 1 year.

Thanks to Boofo, who PMed me with a suggestion - I have incorporated his suggestion into my hack, and this has fixed up the age problem for certain members.

The hack should be working 100% now. :)

To upgrade, just download the text installation file, and replace the code in the functions.php with the new code.

[Erwin]

I had to fix 2 small bugs to do with birthdates with my update - The bug concerns members' birthdays which fall before 1970. I was wondering why there was a 54 year old on my site who insisted he was 53. :) According to Boofo, someone posted a fix on vb.com, and he PMed it to me. I've fixed this.

[Birdie501]

can you tell us which dates causes this errors?

[Erwin]

Originally posted by Birdie501
can you tell us which dates causes this errors?

I suspected it was certain months, but it appeared to be fairly random - I tried to find a pattern with my members, but couldn't. Whatever date they had trouble with, when I applied it to my profile, it still worked for me with my old code, but not for them.

Anyway, the latest code in my hack works with no problems at all - whatever it is, the new code fixed it.

So just use the latest installation text file, and there should be no more problems.

[Sketch]

I can see the older folks on my board going crazy on me if I installed this. ;) It's a great idea though.

Aaron

[Velocd]

For an anime forum like mine, I'm all for it ;)
Heh, it'll be funny to see the attitude of some people change once knowing they are younger than others.

Good job Erwin *clicks install*


No more "what's your age" threads popping up every month. (and if they still do, god have mercy on the poor soul)

[[D]Vincent]

Vincent]Originally posted by Knightmare


Good point, but in that case, couldn't you say the same thing about a users post count, location, etc? :)

I don't display location either, I only display Posts, Online Stats, and Member ID, everything else is RPG related. Posts because members like to see how many posts they have and compete with their friends on the board sometimes. Online Stats because I belief people would like to see if someone is online or not. Member ID because I like to be able to see that I was the first person registered XD no not really I just like to see each member's ID.

[ZiRu$]

dope......i shall install this

[LordHelmut]

Nice man, that was the first hack I have ever installed. I got it to work with very little effort. I have been studying the actual PHP that goes in the functions.php but I dont understand it. Im trying to learn but im so confused. Well, thanks for the hack, its awesome :)

[ZiRu$]

Installed on 2.2.6 PERFECTLY.....thx

[Mr. X]

Great, just installed it.

[NSeXcellent]

Hmm.. i installed it, but nothing shows up. I've gone back over it 4 times to make sure its right. Still nothing.. any clue?

[DrkFusion]

Nice Work Erwin, thanks :)

[Erwin]

Originally posted by NSeXcellent
Hmm.. i installed it, but nothing shows up. I've gone back over it 4 times to make sure its right. Still nothing.. any clue?

Did you put $age in your postbit? It works if you follow the instructions closely...

[eXtremeTim]

Not bad. Nice and simple. I will proble also install this one once i get my site back up and running. :)

[NSeXcellent]

Originally posted by Erwin


Did you put $age in your postbit? It works if you follow the instructions closely...

Of course. Its only 2 steps. How could I forget that. :) I'll figure it out. I couldnt have screwed up TOO much :)

[PsYc]

cann someone help me with this code?

i have this in my member.php

to show the userage in members profile but when i view several profiles they are older than their birthday is

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// Set userage !
if ($bbuserinfo[birthday] == '0000-00-00') {
$userage = "N/A";
} else {
if (date("Y")<$bday[0] or $bday[0]<1901 or $bday[0]=='0000') {
$userage = "N/A";
}
}

if ( ($userage!="N/A") ){
if (date("m")>=$bday[1] and date("d")>=$bday[2]) {
$userage=(date("Y")-$bday[0]);
eval("\$getinfo_userage = \"".gettemplate("getinfo_userage")."\";");
} else {
$userage=(date("Y")-$bday[0])+1;
eval("\$getinfo_userage = \"".gettemplate("getinfo_userage")."\";");
}

}


if ( ($userage!="N/A") ){
if (date("m")>=$bday[1] and date("d")<=$bday[2]) {
$userage=(date("Y")-$bday[0]);
eval("\$getinfo_userage = \"".gettemplate("getinfo_userage")."\";");
} else {
$userage=(date("Y")-$bday[0])+1;
eval("\$getinfo_userage = \"".gettemplate("getinfo_userage")."\";");
}

}

if ( ($userage!="N/A") ){
if (date("m")<=$bday[1] and date("d")<$bday[2]) {
$userage=(date("Y")-$bday[0])-1;
eval("\$getinfo_userage = \"".gettemplate("getinfo_userage")."\";");
} else {
$userage=(date("Y")-$bday[0]);
eval("\$getinfo_userage = \"".gettemplate("getinfo_userage")."\";");
}

}

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Birthday: 23.09.1982
Age: 20


^^ you see? he is older but its still August right? :)

anyone who knows how to fix this?

[N9ne]

I found something wrong!

A user set his birthdate to be in 1969 and it says he's 84 in the postbit :confused:

[N9ne]

ok Very strange I just checked his full profile in adminCP:

1918-06-12

That's what's set for his birthdate which means the 84 is RIGHT but in his PROFILE it says 1969, why does it say that :confused:

[Erwin]

Code removed from this post, and added to the TEXT installation file.

[Erwin]

Originally posted by Tha Rock
ok Very strange I just checked his full profile in adminCP:

1918-06-12

That's what's set for his birthdate which means the 84 is RIGHT but in his PROFILE it says 1969, why does it say that :confused:

That's weird, and has nothing to do with my hack. :) Looks like somewhere along the line something went wrong. My hack just displays the member's age - it doesn't touch the database or make a query.

[PsYc]

thanks erwin, for the fix works now :)

[Erwin]

You're welcome. :)

[Intex]

Great hack, was looking for something like that. Do you know how I can show this on a members page that's outside of vB?

[Erwin]

Originally posted by Intex
Great hack, was looking for something like that. Do you know how I can show this on a members page that's outside of vB?

Outside of vB? That's going to take a major rework of the code (remember, this code uses no queries). I don't know... anyone has any idea?

[PHiXTiT]

Great work! (INSTALLED)

Thanks:)

[PHiXTiT]

Just noticed that after installing this I had to move the admin/functions.php to a different area within as i lost the profile option in my postbit. No bigee, works great! Thanks:)

[Erwin]

Originally posted by PHiXTiT
Just noticed that after installing this I had to move the admin/functions.php to a different area within as i lost the profile option in my postbit. No bigee, works great! Thanks:)

I have no idea what you just said there, but whatever it is, it's not because of this hack - this hack is placed in the place in functions.php that decides what to put in the postbit - the code of the hack itself is just a simple mathematical calculation that uses up no database query and does not interfere with any other lines of code in functions.php - unless you have another hack in functions.php that uses the same variables.

Bottom line - this hack works fine with no problems - the problem you had (whatever it is) is not because of this hack.

[PHiXTiT]

Well this was the first hack I installed on a clean 2.2.7 board and when modifying the admin/functions.php I lost the profile button on my postbit. I retried it a couple times and same thing.
So I bumped the area to be pasted a couple lines up and all is working great now.
Just so you know my postbit template is highly modified just for looks.
I was just pointing this out so that if others are having any problems in 2.2.7 to try what i did.
Great hack though, comes in handy. :)

[Buddha]

um... i know this is a simple hack, but i'm getting this error...

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING in /home/fulldvdr/public_html/admin/functions.php on line 929

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: vbdate() in /home/fulldvdr/public_html/admin/sessions.php on line 403

line 929 is

$buffer = str_replace(""", "\"", $buffer);

and line 203 in sessions is the last line in this quote

// get formatted date/time
if ($bbuserinfo['lastvisit']) {
$bbuserinfo['lastvisitdate'] = vbdate($dateformat." ".$timeformat,$bbuserinfo['lastvisit']);

???

[Erwin]

Well, I can guarantee that this error is not from my hack, but from your mistake, either in applying this hack, or in upgrading to 2.2.7 or some other thing you did. :) Like you said, this hack is as simple as it gets. You can basically uninstall this hack, and do it again, or try this.

Find this bit of code (basically what you posted in your post at the end):


// get formatted date/time
if ($bbuserinfo['lastvisit']) {
$bbuserinfo['lastvisitdate'] = vbdate($dateformat." ".$timeformat,$bbuserinfo['lastvisit']);


Add this right underneath:


}


See if that works. You may have forgotten to close a function somewhere.

[Buddha]

thanks erwin... naw, it's closed up... i just posted those three lines to show which line had the error.

i know it's not your hack (it's unbelievably easy), but thought that maybe you (or someone else) might know.

thanks anyway.

edit... did the file modifications at home and it worked. must have had something to do with the browser based cp that i was using to do the hack at work, cause i did it three times (being very careful) and each time got the same result... ah well, works now... that's all that mattters. thanks.

*clicks installed*

[PHiXTiT]

It worked just fine for me (the users age and all) Except I lost the profile button in my postbit.
For those of you that may run into the same problem here is what I did instead of what was stated to do with the admin/functions.php to solve this issue, I did the following and all is working great on my 2.2.7 Board!

### Open admin/functions.php ###

### Find ###

if ($post[yahoo]!="") {
eval("\$post[yahooicon] = \"".gettemplate("yahoo")."\";");
} else {
$post[yahoo]="";
}

### After add ###

// Age in postbit - Erwin
$bday = explode("-",$post[birthday]);
if (date("Y")>$bday[0] and $bday[0]>1901 && $bday[0]!='0000') {
$userage= date("Y") - ($bday[0]+1);
if (date("m")>$bday[1] OR (date("m")==$bday[1] AND $bday[2]<=date("d"))) {
$userage=$userage+1;
}
$age = "$userage<br>";
}
// Age in postbit

### Save and Close admin/functions.php ###

[NuclioN]

I've found a simple script to echo Roman numbers, i'll attach it.

maybe you can let this work with this mod, would be great. :)

[Erwin]

Mmm... I'll have a look... but wouldn't it be a hassle for members to have to work out what the Roman numerals stand for? My age is VIIVMXCII... ??? :D

[NuclioN]

Fun Erwin ;)

[\ \ - Speedy - / /]

I noticed something, with the Age in the profile thingy, it says

Age: Age:16

How can I make it say

Age: 16

?

Thankx

[Erwin]

Oops.

In members.php, find:


$age = "Age: $userage<br>";


Replace with:


$age = "$userage";


This fix only affects this hack if you put it in your Member Profile as in this post (which I've fixed):

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?s=&postid=290103#post290103

The hack for the postbit remains unchanged, and works. :)

[sunrunner_pei]

Installed and working on 2.2.9! Excellent!

[Tungsten]

How would I go about adding this to the Admin CP so that when I edit a user's profile I can see their age calculated next to where it shows their birthdate? :D

[Buczilla]

Thanks a lot, great hack!

[insanctus]

~ clicks install..... I have plans for this :)

[FWF]

installs

[Oblivion Knight]

Erwin, is there any way to make $age = "Age: $userage<br>"; template controlled without the queries shooting up?

I did it like this:
// Age in postbit - Erwin
$bday = explode("-",$post[birthday]);
if (date("Y")>$bday[0] and $bday[0]>1901 && $bday[0]!='0000') {
$userage= date("Y") - ($bday[0]+1);
if (date("m")>$bday[1] OR (date("m")==$bday[1] AND $bday[2]<=date("d"))) {
$userage=$userage+1;
}
eval("\$age = \"".gettemplate("age")."\";");
}
// Age in postbitBut it added many many more queries on top of the usual (obviously, it requires that template everytime a birthday is shown).. I looked for a $templatesused variable, but there isn't one in admin/functions.php.. I'm still learning how to do these basic things, sorry!

Many thanks,
Oblivion Knight.

[Erwin]

Add

age

to the $templatesused="

section in showthread.php under the POSTBIT section. :)

[Oblivion Knight]

Today at 02:39 PM Erwin said this in Post #55 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=418688#post418688)
Add

age

to the $templatesused="

section in showthread.php under the POSTBIT section. :) Do I keep my code AND follow your step?
I tried this and the queries still stay much higher than they were before.

It doesn't help that I'm not feeling well at the moment I guess.. :sleep:

[Erwin]

There are 2 templatesused="

in showthread.php

Put that template "age" in both of them and see if it helps. Yes, you need to use your code for templates to be used. By caching the template, you should not incur any queries at all. It can be done.

[Oblivion Knight]

Well I'll be.. I could have sworn I tried that. :p
Until the new template is added, the queries stay higher than they should be (probably something I forgot last time). Then once it's added, the queries return to normal.

[Erwin]

Glad to know it works, and it does not add any queries. :)

[Red Blaze]

Added this hack a while back. Works great and like someone said above, I too have plans for this. ^^;;

[PAINTBALLM]

installed, thanks!

[patriciafrankie]

Awesome hack! I'm having a problem installing it on one of my themes, though. I have everything entered in correctly, but I still get Age: Age: 21.

I have no idea why it's doing this. Any suggestions?

Patricia

[Erwin]

Awesome hack! I'm having a problem installing it on one of my themes, though. I have everything entered in correctly, but I still get Age: Age: 21.

I have no idea why it's doing this. Any suggestions?

Patricia
Just edit your posbit and remove "Age:".

[patriciafrankie]

Thank you so much! :D I have another question: when I remove Age: from the postbit, I have a space in between the edge of the table/box and the letter "A" I've been wracking my brain all night trying to fix it :(

Patricia

I took the "Age:" part out, and doing so messes up the way it should look on the forum as far as colors go.

Here's a picture of the second "Age:" and a pic of it removed. Removing it changes the colors :(

[Erwin]

Try removing Age: from the code then. It's one or the other, you can't have it in the code and the template. :)

[007]

What changed in this for VB3? I thought it would work just find but it didn't. What needs to be changed for it to work? Thanks.

[Boofo]

What changed in this for VB3? I thought it would work just find but it didn't. What needs to be changed for it to work? Thanks.vB3 has the age in postbit built-in and I released an Age in Profile hack for vB3. ;)

[ZiRu$]

Installed and working on vb 2.3.5

[TeenageWorld]

I like this hack, so that's why I installed it, easy install.

- Teenage World

/me click's install