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c-pr0mpt

06-05-2002 05:04 AM

I tested this today on my beta board. The install was quick and painless, and after that I set my birthday to June 5th. My internet has been off and on today and I just now finally got back online (1:30am) and I had the PM and the email waiting for me. :)

So as far as I can see, there are no problems off the bat. Wonderful hack and I thank you muchos for it!

Dean C

06-05-2002 08:08 AM

i would love to test this now... i have my sql queries working again !!!

rapstar10@hotmail.com !!

Boofo

06-05-2002 08:10 AM

Please read post# 39 above. It will be released shortly. :)

Quote:

Originally posted by Mist
i would love to test this too !

rapstar10@hotmail.com !!

Logician

06-05-2002 09:40 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Me2Be
Would it be too difficult to add an option where you can specify how recently a user has visited? I don't think members who haven't visited in, let's say, six months will be coming back to the boards (at least on our site!) :)

@Me2Be: If what you are suggesting is to send greetings to only users who have visited the board in the last X days/months, yes this can be achievable. However I'm not very keen to integrate this feature to the hack, because after every integration I need to test it more to debug and this testing time already took too long :)

However after I release the hack, remind me you want this feature and without officially integrating it as a default feature, I'll give you the code you can modify yourself to have it.

But if I were you I would choose to send emails (instead of PMs) with this hack and this would help your "missing" members to remind you and get them back to your board. ;)

@Mist: Thx for your help, but I will release it very soon..

Regards,
Logician

Boofo

06-05-2002 10:04 AM

I'd be interested in getting that code also. :)

Quote:

Originally posted by Logician

@Me2Be: If what you are suggesting is to send greetings to only users who have visited the board in the last X days/months, yes this can be achievable. However I'm not very keen to integrate this feature to the hack, because after every integration I need to test it more to debug and this testing time already took too long :)

However after I release the hack, remind me you want this feature and without officially integrating it as a default feature, I'll give you the code you can modify yourself to have it.

But if I were you I would choose to send emails (instead of PMs) with this hack and this would help your "missing" members to remind you and get them back to your board. ;)

@Mist: Thx for your help, but I will release it very soon..

Regards,
Logician

Highlander

06-05-2002 05:43 PM

okay logician..i installed it..and all seems to bee good..now i will have wait two days..till the next members got birthday..and then 4 of my members should get an email and PM....if something should be tested ..tell me i will do..

Highlander

06-05-2002 05:46 PM

my board version is 2.2.5 and portal runnin..also i have several hacks installed nd your webtemplates..(i lov them..) ..maybe i will install the unsubscribe hack..it might be useful too

Boofo

06-05-2002 05:48 PM

The Unsubscribe hack is one of the best out there. It works great! I wouldn't want to run a board without it. :)

Quote:

Originally posted by Highlander
my board version is 2.2.5 and portal runnin..also i have several hacks installed nd your webtemplates..(i lov them..) ..maybe i will install the unsubscribe hack..it might be useful too

c-pr0mpt

06-06-2002 12:21 AM

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I was installing on another board and ran into a weird problem at the query process. I did the queries just as the install says, then when I run.

Code:

SELECT leftdate from timetick where action='birthday';

I just get

Code:

Error 

SQL-query: 



SELECT leftdate from timetick where action='birthday';

MySQL said:

Mysql doesn't say anything. But when I browse the table timetick its all there...sshot attached.

What am I doing wrong with the queries? Please cure my confusion.

Logician

06-06-2002 05:15 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by c-pr0mpt
I was installing on another board and ran into a weird problem at the query process. I did the queries just as the install says, then when I run.

yep it's weird. For one thing there cant be anything wrong with the queries: These are very simple and basic queries and their syntax are correct. Besides they run correctly in all beta testers' board. I suspect something got wrong when you run the query: Maybe a corrupt table or smt.

I suggest deleting this table (timetick) from your db and start from the begining (maybe you should use "logician_query" file to run them).

Please let me know afterwards, thank you..

Logician

Logician

06-09-2002 10:20 PM

Dear Friends,

The hack is officially released in the full releases forum. I thank you all especially to beta testers who helped me testing, debugging and improving the hack.

If you have installed the hack as a beta tester, please visit the hack's thread and download it. I strongly suggest you apply the STEP 4 (ONLY!) again. Simply delete the code you inserted from your index.php and insert the new code in step 4. It's the most recent code with some bugs fixed and a few features added.

I added the requested independent "create a greeting thread" feature so now you can both send email/pm AND create a thread as well. Since some small bugs are fixed too, I advise all of you to reapply step 4. If you click install in the original thread, you'll receive future updates and bug fixes (if any).

Regards,
Logician

FCorner

07-21-2002 11:55 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by FCorner
Yes please, would be more than happy to provide feedback. I actually received a birthday greeting from either this board or the other VB support board and thought this was already released. Was that your hack in action? :)

My email address is webmom@familycorner.com and I promise to install it and provide feedback right away!

Thanks!

Well I'm sorry that it has taken so long for me to provide feedback, but I had to wait for my server support to install it for me.

I have it set to just send emails, but did have it set to send PM's originally. Everything seems to be functioning properly.

The ONLY problem I have encountered is if the member did not specify a year of birth, but did give the month and day, here is the resulting birthday greeting:

"Happy Birthday! You don't look a day over 2002! :)"

This member had their year set at 0000. Any ideas on how to fix this? Thanks!

Logician

07-22-2002 07:54 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by FCorner
The ONLY problem I have encountered is if the member did not specify a year of birth, but did give the month and day, here is the resulting birthday greeting:

"Happy Birthday! You don't look a day over 2002! :)"

This member had their year set at 0000. Any ideas on how to fix this? Thanks!

Yes, please follow these steps:

1- Apply the released hack code instead of your beta code to index.php. You dont need to reapply other steps, simply replace the code in index.php with the latest version relased in full sections forum.. (Also dont forget to configure the settings of course)

2- Check the hack's thread for more info, I released a "hack of the hack" in that thread to fix it.

dm02	09-03-2002 09:37 PM

Would love to try it and give you feedback too.. :)

Blue@dss-knights.com

Logician

09-04-2002 08:42 AM

thank you dm02, but the hack is already released here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=39663

You can get it from there.. :)

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