Yep. I added that and a few other options to mine.

In birthday.php find:
Replace it with:
Find:
Below it add:
Find:
Below it add:
You can change the "1" in the code above to whatever you want the minium posts for birthday threads to be


Find:
Above it add:
If you also want to limit the birthday threads & emails to users who have visited the site within the time set in your admin panel for showing birthdays on forum home do this:

In birthday.php find:
Above it add:
Find:
Replace it with:

Another way to do that (but not as much control) is to change:

to

That would only select users that have posted. I haven't tested it, but it should work.

EvilLS1's version gives you a lot more options.

How do you turn it off??? :-S

Turn off what? The automatic email or the automatic thread?

The automatic thread.

Sure -- just put a \\ in front of all of the lines that relate to thread creation -- or delete everything that you hacked in.

Thanks! :)

Parse error: parse error in /home/virtual/site1/fst/var/www/html/forums/includes/cron/birthday.php on line 86

<?php
/*================================================= =====================*\
|| ################################################## ################## ||
|| # vBulletin 3.0.1 - Licence Number XXXXXXXXXX
|| # ---------------------------------------------------------------- # ||
|| # Copyright ?2000?2004 Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd. All Rights Reserved. ||
|| # This file may not be redistributed in whole or significant part. # ||
|| # ---------------- VBULLETIN IS NOT FREE SOFTWARE ---------------- # ||
|| # http://www.vbulletin.com | http://www.vbulletin.com/license.html # ||
|| ################################################## ################## ||
\*================================================ ======================*/

error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE);

if (!is_object($DB_site))
{
exit;
}

$today = date('m-d', TIMENOW);

$ids = '0';
foreach($usergroupcache AS $usergroupid => $usergroup)
{
if ($usergroup['genericoptions'] & SHOWBIRTHDAY)
{
$ids .= ",$usergroupid";
}
}

$birthdays = $DB_site->query("
SELECT username, email, languageid, birthday, userid
FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "user
WHERE birthday LIKE '$today-%' AND
(options & $_USEROPTIONS[adminemail]) AND
usergroupid IN ($ids)
");

vbmail_start();

while ($userinfo = $DB_site->fetch_array($birthdays))
{
$username = unhtmlspecialchars($userinfo['username']);
eval(fetch_email_phrases('birthday', $userinfo['languageid']));
vbmail($userinfo['email'], $subject, $message);
$emails .= iif($emails, ', ');
$emails .= $userinfo['username'];
$bday_people .= "<a href=\"member.php?u=".$userinfo['userid']."\">".$username."</a>, born ".$userinfo['birthday']."\n";
$bday_title .= $username.", ";


vbmail_end();

if ($emails)
{
log_cron_action('Birthday Email sent to: ' . $emails, $nextitem);
// Create Birthday Thread Hack
$birthday_greeting_thread = "Here are today's birthdays!<br><br>$bday_people";

$greeter=3; //Your User ID
$greeter_name="Jon"; //Your User Name
$greetings_forum=56; //enter the forum id that you want the thread to go into
$todays_date11= date("F j, Y", mktime (date("H")+$timeset, date("i"), date("s"), date("m"), date("d"), date("Y")));
$title3= "Happy Birthday to ";
$title3.= $bday_title;
$title3.= "on ";
$title3.=$todays_date11;
$DB_site->query("INSERT INTO thread (threadid,title,lastpost,forumid,open,replycount,p ostusername,postuserid,lastpos ter,dateline,iconid,visible,attach) VALUES (NULL,'".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($title3))."', '".time()."','$greetings_forum','1','0','".addslas hes($greeter_name)."','$greeter','".addslashes($gr eeter_name)."','".time()."','0','1','0')");
$log_threadid=$DB_site->insert_id();
// Creating Post
$DB_site->query("INSERT INTO post (postid,threadid,title,username,userid,dateline,pa getext,allowsmilie,showsignatu re,ipaddress,iconid,visible) VALUES (NULL,'$log_threadid','".addslashes(htmlspecialcha rs($title3))."','".addslashes($greeter_name)."','$ greeter','".time()."','".addslashes($birthday_gree ting_thread)."','1','0','127.0.0.1','0','1')");
// Updating Forum
$DB_site->query("UPDATE forum SET replycount=replycount+1,threadcount=threadcount+1, lastpost='".time()."',lastposter='".addslashes($gr eeter_name)."' WHERE forumid = $greetings_forum");
// Updating User's Post
$DB_site->query("UPDATE user SET posts=posts+1 WHERE userid=$greeter");
// End Create Birthday Thread Hack



/*================================================= =====================*\
|| ################################################## ##################
|| # Downloaded: 22:57, Sun May 2nd 2004
|| # CVS: $RCSfile: birthday.php,v $ - $Revision: 1.25 $
|| ################################################## ##################
\*================================================ ======================*/
?>

@ Jons5150

You missed a } between the two lines
should be:

What about Usergroups to exclude from Birthday thread ?
any idea how to do this ?

Nice hack.

I have it installed and working, but I am seeing all of the HTML code surrounding the birthday people. Does HTML have to be enabled in the forum for this to work properly?

Also, what do I need to do to change the subject of the thread. I have LOTS of members and having all of the user names in the subject line is way too much clutter.

Thank you.

Rick

I guess so. The other option is to take out the HTML and forgo the links to their profiles. I think you could use /n for line breaks (???).

The easiest thing to do is replace:

$title3.= $bday_title;

with:

$title3.= "our members";

That would make the subject "Happy Birthday to our members on whateverdate".

Enjoy!

Thank you. That did it :D

works very fine here, thx. mate !

This doesn't work for me.
If only users with zero posts has birthday on a day this addition works, but if other users with more than zero post has also birthday a greating thread is generated and also the zero posters are greated !

any idea?

I fixed the problem with the following database query:

iam having problems i have done the hack as in the download and today this was made as a post not as the screenie shows.
Also a side effect has happened, in my admin panel in forums and moderator the options in the controls ie edit, delete have disappeared but when i delete the post the options have reappeared.

this is how the post was displayed.

Dear Forum,<br><br>Here are today's birthdays!<br><br><a href="member.php?u=124">RUGGY</a>, born 06-28-1938
<a href="member.php?u=54">RONNIEBI</a>, born 06-28-1941

Any ideas

Looks like you need to turn on HTML for your birthday forum. Then the HTML code will disappear.

That second problem is a new one to me. Are you listing yourself as the poster?

Sorted the first second one seems to have gone away strange

Hi there,

the post is done very well in my 3.0.3er Version but the Thread does not get a title on the forumhome.

Take a look at my screen and you will see!

Hmmmm.... I'm running vB 3.0.0 and not having that problem. Double-check the code. See my screenshot from today.


(Edit)
Oh -- you said you're running 3.0.3 (you might want to update your profile). I'm not sure -- maybe that's the problem. I won't know until I upgrade to 3.0.3, which won't be for a couple of months....

I checked the code (its not so much :D) and this is looking like yours!

Hmmmm..... I'm just not sure what the problem is, unless 3.0.3 handles something differently. Maybe someone familiar with 3.0.3 could help by looking at my code. Sorry!

It's not updating the thread title or the link to the birthday thread with the last post icon. It is updating the last poster name fine, but not the other 2. It is pulling the infor from the last post made before the birthday cron job ran. Any idea what might be causing this?

That's strange. I never noticed it before, but you're right. For instance, last night it created a new birthday thread, but the title and link that shows up on the forum-home is for yesterday's birthday thread. Weird. Let me look into it and try to figure it out.

It seems to have the right title and link for new posts.... ???

Yessir. Otherwise, it is normal. Just when it makes a birthday thread. Maybe the post query should be run before the thread query? ;)

Yeah I noticed that when I first installed it, but it didn't really bother me because it usually doesn't stay the last post for long. But it changes the last poster's username but not the title ;x

Would be cool to get a fix to that though, thanks :)

Well, I tried switching the post and thread creation and it just creates an empty thread. I think the problem is with this line:

$log_threadid=$DB_site->insert_id();

I think the insert_id() function is no longer valid in vB3, so it enters a thread id that is NULL. So, it doesn't show up until the next day. Make sense?

Anyone know what the function insert_id() was replaced with?

Any solutions so far?

Well, I've looked some code in newthread.php and I think I could re-write this hack to work correctly and streamline it a bit. I won't have time for a while, though (I've having surgery on Tuesday and will be out for a few weeks). I'll look back into it as soon as I can. :)

Thanks,

I think they are using verify_id now, like the following:

Can someone please make it so we don't have to turn on HTML in our forums?

Installed yesterday, this morning I got this,

Any ideas?

You have to turn on HTML for your birthday forum. That will fix it...

I can't find out where that is in CP, can you hint me?

I got it and it works beautifully!

In the forum manager -- then enable/disable features. See the screenshot.

Thanks! You rock!

I use phrase in the birthday.php, when I test it by running cron, it works normally all the phrases show up properly, but when the cron runs in automatic mode, all phrases never show? whats the problem?

OK...

I didn't want to enable HTML on my forums (for obvious reasons) so I used BBCode Instead to create the thread's post text.

***EDIT*** The BR Code works even if you do not have HTML enabled.

And it works just fine. :squareeyed: :nervous:

This is what my code looks like: