In your admin cp under scheduled tasks, you can choose to "run now" for any cron job. It's really useful for testing.

The parsing errors have nothing to do with queries, but with this line:

$birthday_greeting_thread = <<< EOF

It is bad syntax. Its also bad coding form.

hmmm.... I see that method used all the time. It doesn't cause errors even if it's considered bad syntax. What would you suggest (aside from calling a vb template)? :ermm:

I did go ahead and change the $birthday_greeting_thread into a single line variable instead of using <<< EOF EOF; tags, but that format is used quite frequently. I'm not sure why it would cause an error. PhotoPost makes liberal use of this type of format and it's taught in PHP books.... ??? :ermm:

use it for vbb Gold ,, don't work ,

Great hack! I've got too many birthdays to print all the names in the title but I'm using the rest of MK@spug.net's changes. Very easy install on vb3 gold (if you're having errors check to see if your mysql insert has extra spaces).

yes, working in gold

thanks :D

Hmm...this hack works fine on Gold, however the thread doesn't show up on the forumhome, just inside the forum. Also, the thread count doesn't rise when new threads are made. (I just installed this hack, so it only has one thread posted...yet the forum for the BDay threads still has '0' as the thread count...even though the reply count is there.

Is this supposed to happen, and can it be fixed?

Thanks!

Good point. I left out a couple of line of code from Logician's original hack. Add these lines right above // End Create Birthday Thread Hack

I just tested it and it works. Credit goes to Logician :). I updated the original txt file.

Thanks ChurchMedia and Logician!

That worked perfectly. :)