Store Birthday Money?

[Koutaru]

I was wondering if someone could make a hack where a user will get a certain amount of (lesane) store points on their birthday.

Of course, this hack needs to be protected. I don't want a user to keep changing his/her birthday every day in order to get the store points.

Maybe for protection, user can only be awarded with these points once a year. Once awarded points, they won't get another batch until a year later. If they change their birthday, they won't get their points until after a year later of the last date it was awarded but it will be then again rewarded on the specified new date.

I hope I haven't confused you ;)

Also, along the same lines I'd like to award store points for anniversaries of being on the board. As in year by year on the date they joined, they'll earn a certain amount of points

:) *smiles sweetly* Can someone please make this hack? It would be a nice addon

[Koutaru]

;) no one for this hack? It would be a nice addon for your members. Oo; you do like to give presents on birthdays right?

[bharvey42]

Thats a good idea

[Koutaru]

:) See someone agrees.. anyone up for this?

[monstergamer]

i agree too
and have it pm them saying (ex)happy birthday or some thing

[Koutaru]

^^ Of course --- anyone?

[Erwin]

The problem with this is that users can keep changing their birthday everyday to get points everyday. :)

[Koutaru]

04-30-03 at 05:31 PM Koutaru said this in Post #1 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=389655#post389655)

Maybe for protection, user can only be awarded with these points once a year. Once awarded points, they won't get another batch until a year later. If they change their birthday, they won't get their points until after a year later of the last date it was awarded but it will be then again rewarded on the specified new date.



I thought about that earlier ;) my explaination might be a bit confusing though

[007]

Or you could just make it so everybody gets it on Christmas or New Years or some holiday. I mean if they're only getting it once a year, why not make it one day and call it good? :)

It would be cool to have it based on B-Day's too though I guess. No idea how to code this though..

[Koutaru]

I guess I could live with Christmas or even an anniversary of them joining the boards

But B-day would be cool :)

What would be even better is.. a hack that will allow you to imput dates or anniversaries you would like to award points towards

That probably would be very hard

[Cyricx]

I like this idea too,

as far as a fix for the changing bday, would it be difficult to code in a "check" to see if they have received the reward in the last year?

[Koutaru]

I think it would just add a column in a table -- like "lastrecieved" and if lastrecieved is within a year, it will stop the script from giving points

[007]

Anniversary of them joining the board would be best I think, since they can't change that date... ;)

[Koutaru]

I don't think anniversary will be as hard -- anyone? When I have the time I'll look into it but I'm currently in the middle of a few other projects

[Koutaru]

No one ???? :( Hmm guess I'll have a look when I have time

[Steve W.]

I think that would be an excellent hack!

[MUG]

People could exploit this by creating new accounts, setting the birthday to today and then donating the points to their main account.

[Koutaru]

As I said before, maybe just anniversary of registered date :)