ok i set this to hour 1 and it spams my board with threads how can i stop that? i figured it would create one thread for that day for the persons birthday but it post one and keeps going on and post the same threads numerous times... and i have it set on the first hour of the day

882 Automatic Birthday Thread 01:50, 20th Nov 2005 Birthday Thread created for: gizmo27
1881 Automatic Birthday Thread 01:45, 20th Nov 2005 Birthday Thread created for: gizmo27
1880 Automatic Birthday Thread 01:35, 20th Nov 2005 Birthday Thread created for: gizmo27
1879 Automatic Birthday Thread 01:33, 20th Nov 2005 Birthday Thread created for: gizmo27
1878 Automatic Birthday Thread 01:32, 20th Nov 2005 Birthday Thread created for: gizmo27
1877 Automatic Birthday Thread 01:31, 20th Nov 2005 Birthday Thread created for: gizmo27
1876 Automatic Birthday Thread 01:30, 20th Nov 2005 Birthday Thread created for: gizmo27
1875 Automatic Birthday Thread 01:29, 20th Nov 2005 Birthday Thread created for: gizmo27
1874 Automatic Birthday Thread 01:28, 20th Nov 2005 Birthday Thread created for: gizmo27
1873 Automatic Birthday Thread 01:27, 20th Nov 2005 Birthday Thread created for: gizmo27
1872 Automatic Birthday Thread 01:24, 20th Nov 2005 Birthday Thread created for: gizmo27
1871 Automatic Birthday Thread 01:23, 20th Nov 2005 Birthday Thread created for: gizmo27
1870 Automatic Birthday Thread 01:22, 20th Nov 2005 Birthday Thread created for: gizmo27
1869 Automatic Birthday Thread 01:21, 20th Nov 2005 Birthday Thread created for: gizmo27
1868 Automatic Birthday Thread 01:20, 20th Nov 2005 Birthday Thread created for: gizmo27

You need to set the cron to run at a specific time and not at every hour. For instance, if you set your cron to run at hour 23 and minute 55 then the birthday script will run everyday at 11:55 PM

Mine is set at 5 0 * * * which runs it at 12:05 AM

ok i think whats going on is its confliting with the birthday email set up by vbulletin

I have not changed the default settings for the birthday email and everything is working correctly. Set your minutes and hour time but leave a * in everything else.

now these both run off the same cron file right?

No. The birthday thread should be includes/cron/birthdaythread.php and thye birthday email should be includes/cron/birthday.php

ok last question now what happens if say a member registers later then the script is run they wont get picked up?

Something like this but instead of creating threads it made posts in a specific thread would be really useful to me :)

How would I be able to make this show the username and avatars in the post?

I am still not getting anything printing for $bday_people .. :(

Latest version installed over the top of, then removing old one and reinstalling.. does it only fill up if there is more than one birthday person?

its posting the thread at about 10pm the day of the birthday...?

u have to edit the cron to make it post earlier... im still having trouble with it... it was posting over and over the same thing in the thread for the same users birthday.... i set mine to 1:01 am and it works ok but the funny thing is right now it still works and i have it shut off... seemed to work better when i shut it off in the product section and left the cron

One thing to note. Check your servers time setting. For example, you set it for 12:01 AM est but your server is located in California. there is a 3 hour time difference so in all actuality, your script would really run at 3:01 am est when the server reaches 12:01 in their time zone.

which line do i edit?

you dont have to edit a line you have to edit the cron in your Scheduled Tasks

ahh... found it!

Ok how can i get it to add the signature whats the code to add that to the postbit.

$signature??

XML-Fehler: mismatched tag in Zeile 46
Got this error from the german xml file, product import was right?

The XML should be fixed now.

Error: Datei ungültig :squareeyed:
Installed now the english version and added phrases, thanks.

where do I put birthdaythread.php?

Thanks

It didn't create the thread....

Works perfectly! Thanks.

Good to see its already ported to 3.5

Use this hack already in 3.0.7 so cant do without it anymore :nervous:

Hello, just installed and get the following error when executing the cron job:

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/littlewa/public_html/includes/cron/birthdaythread.php on line 117

It creates the thread fine but concerned about the error.

Is there any reason for this to happen?

Thanks.

brilliant hack

cheers fella's.

Where is the birthdaythread.php uploaded to? The forum directory or /includes?

*Needs to test before clicking install*

installed and very slick

It's not creating the thread for me in 3.5.3

Jim

EDIT - It works now. Had another plugin interfering with it.

This is the error I get in 3.5.3

Any ideas or help?

nice thanks, will buy the regular one soon!

This error only occurs when I run the cron. It only occurs on days when people have a birthday.

No birthday....no errors.

The line in question?
Anybody?

I installed this and it does not post at all, I checked a member today and his profile has a displayed birthday so I dont know?? Any ideas

Mike go into your Admin CP >> Scheduled tasks >> Scheduled Task Manager. Find the Automatic Birthday Thread and click on "Run Now".

When you do that are you getting the same error as me? I noticed you too are running 3.5.3, might be a bug with this version.

I didn't know this was an option, thanks and yes I did get this error when trying that

Automatic Birthday Thread

Warning: main(/www/m/meogeecom/htdocs/./includes/cron/birthdaythread.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /admincp/cronadmin.php on line 64

Warning: main(): Failed opening '/www/m/meogeecom/htdocs/./includes/cron/birthdaythread.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/php4') in /admincp/cronadmin.php on line 64

Done

This works absolutely fine for me on 3.5.3.

Those of you who are having difficulties: Do you have any prior versions installed? If so, Uninstall them (especcially if you had this hack installed on 3.0.x .. this will require enabling debug mode and removing the entries from the AdminCP - vBulletin Options list.

Mike: Yours appears to be related to running on IIS? I am sorry, but I have no experience with this setup. Try entering the full path to the file in your Scheduled Task area.

I got it figured out, the php folder it calls to is not named the same, the folder needs to be changed to birthdaythread.php and the error goes away

now I need to check somehow if it works, let me try to run it now

Mine had to do with my message. I took out all bb code and smilies and it works now.

i'll give that a try then too