woah... installed it and got internal errors!!! dont want it anymore!!

Well, I have just tested this with 3.7.3 release of VB, and configured the way you would expect to operate, and using active users only setting on in vb settings, and having one active and one inactive user on my calender, forcing the cron,...

It worked flawlessly. :)

I will test for a natural instance of proper operation, but will have to wait for a date rollover.
Let you know tomorrow.


But all indications are, the VB 3.7.3 core code upgrade, with the birthday bug I reported to them fixed in this upgrade, corrects the problem that users here were reporting about this modification not working.

Pending further testing,... It works for me perfectly.

Thanks for the info, I'm glad it works for you with no problems now.

Yup, worked on the first natural test.

Believe its good to go.

Thanks cyb.

Just a thought for an enhancement - it would be nice if you had a "test" button or menu option that would enable you to force an immeadiate test post and e-mail instead of having to wait until midnight to see if any changes you made work correctly.

For example, right now when I synchronize the server time with the hack time - the posts and e-mail times are way off and without being able to force a post and/or e-mail you have to wait until the next day to see the results of your adjustment(s), make changes if required and and then wait another day to see how that adjustment worked.

Can somebody help with this - just can't figure out how to get the time set right on this - for example:

Hack offset.........Time B'day Thread is posted

0 .......................11hrs 2min late
+2......................21hrs 30min late
-3.......................15hrs 58 min late
-12......................16hrs 47min late

When set to "0" the server, forum and hack time and dates match - but the thread is still posted late. Can anyone tell me what the problem is getting this to post at the right time?

Be noted that thread must not be created at 00:00. Thread creation process starts first time when someone visits forum after midnight.

Got it installed and it works fine .. One prob I noticed.. is that in the message where it shows the birthday person's age .. It displayed one of my smiley faces .. Checking my vb settings.. The person's age was 18 .. and it displayed it like this:

(born in 1990, Age: 18)

On my board 8) is the "cool" face smiley .

This is a great and very useful mod for us! Thanks!!

My only "complaint" is how it handles when there is more than one birthday on a given date. When we have only one, we get a clean post with a cute birthday smilie, when we have more than one birthday, the smilie won't post and it is a bit "messy"

This is what a birthday greeting for two members ends up looking like:

The color tags list and don't actually populate.

Our single member birthdays show Happy Birthday <member name> in the thread title, but only the birthday smilie in the text.

Is there a way to set it so each member gets their OWN birthday thread?

Thanks again for a great mod!

Nice hack, I like to use it.. but I got a problem !!!

all works but the forum home I get a database error on. tells me table doesn't exist
I reinstalled but still.. (I renamed database name in here)

Database error in vBulletin 3.7.3:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT id, daydone FROM cyb_birthdaythread AS cyb_birthdaythread ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 1;

MySQL Error : Table 'DATABASENAME.cyb_birthdaythread' doesn't exist
Error Number : 1146

This is crazy....

its its complaining about a table on an old database not the current one !!!

the form is reading database 373, and the complaint is about database 364 which is my old db before the upgrade few days ago ....

my config is fine

any idea why the mod is trying to read an old database? I could delete the database but I rather keep it for few more days.

Thanks

Mod completely stopped working for us after upgrade to 3.7.3. We had 3 birthdays since and NONE were posted. Very frustrating. Seems to work on and off and never accurate posting time when it did work for a very short time. Followed settings everyone mentioned here and nothing.

:mad:

Works just fine now, but I have to edit 1 or 2 smiles so they don't show up.

Any chance of a 3.8 version (I know its beta).

Does not work on my 3.8 test forum

I have vb 3.7.3 PL1 running on my board but unable to get this hack to work. I read through all the comments here and did try every suggestion. Does anyone have the same problem and what did you do to get this to work? Thanks in advanced.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2008/11/71.jpg

Hi

I have a problem with this mod, had it on the old version too.
I translated the phases to Spanish and is my default language.
The problem is in a week the mod post in spanish 5 times and 2 times he posts in English.
But if my default language is spanish why he posts sometimes in english.
Any fix?

Thanks in advanced

This mod was great till suddenly i don't know why stopped working for me too!
I had that all users forced to complete their birthday, was working and was sending e-mail but one day no more birthdays in my calendar i don't know why and what to do i am searching few months now!
when i go to registered users they all have hidden birthday without a reason!
what i have to do?
uninstall hack and install again would help?
plz help !

auto birthday greeter has gone away on 3.8 beta 3 - its not working

same problem for me too, it stopped working in 3.8.0 beta 3, and my birthday is not set to hidden.

i was looking for this :)
gr8 work as always:)

Cyb always does good work... I'm going out on a limb here but he is my Superman on Vb.org :D

I have a question, If I missed the answer, I appologize up front!
I did not care for the Age and Year to show in the post. So I have one emoticon that comes up for age and another for the year. The emoticons come up just fine, but the are in ( ). Can I make it so the ( ) don't come up? I looked at editing the upload file, but not sure what line its pulling that from. Please help.

Thank you in advance for your help.... and Cyb ... Keep up the GREAT WORK!

Not working with 3.8.0 Gold ....

I understand WHAT to do.. just don't know WHERE to find it at?

Is this in options or where in my Admin panel? I'm lost... if you can just
direct me WHERE to find it to fix it.. I can.

Thank you in advance.

NEVERMIND I finally figured it out.. so easy. LOL.

Works fine!

Marked as Installed !
Marked for Nomination !

i have this and know of a user who has a birthday today, but neither the forum or this mod is showing it

Thanks.

I use this plugin for some time now, but after my update to 3.8 it doesn't recognise the date.

It gives %Europe/Berlin %000 %2009

any ideas to fix it till a version for 3.8 comes out?

best coder on this board!

I've got a birthday showing on the forum homepage - it shows the age and all... there is no birthday post - doesn't appear to work. :(

After installing a fresh version of vbulletin 3.8.1, I tried installing this mod, but it does not work. I've been using this mod ever since vBulletin 3.6.8, and it's worked great. not sure what happened with the 3.8.x version? I've uninstalled and marked it until it's fixed.

Marking as uninstalled also! I'm using 3.7.4 - it doesnt work on it either!

I understand that Cyb has to support many mods - I just wish he'd support this one. It's obvious that the issues with this mod are not just a fluke, and only happening to one or two people. Where are you Cyb?

UPDATE:
Cyb's last activity in this thread was back on 08/30/2008. I think it's safe to say that this mod is not supported.

Yet he spams this product in other similar product threads claiming it is supported! LOL

Hi,

Is ther a way that the users that have a color in my forum when the birhday post congratulate them in the post appears the username with the color and not with the code and then the username ??

Thank you!

Ensure that exclusion options are not affecting that. Depending on settings product may not create threads for users with post count less than X, or inactive members.

Hi Cyber,

Mmm please see this post and you will see what I am talking about:

http://www.all-reefs.com/inicio/showthread.php?t=6346

The problem is the users that are in a group that the usernames appears with color in the forum, like my moderators appears in red, in the greeting post instead of appears the username with the color appears with the code to put it in color.

Example in the post of the link:

-[color= pink]Carlos Flores[/color]

Instead of

Carlos Flores

Help to fix that.

Remove spaces from opening HTML tags in usergroup settings.

Hi again dear master Cybernetec,

Do you mean this ?

Which spaces I have to eliminate to get this works ?

Thanx!!