Nice hack. Smilies should be disabled in the post though, because things like 8) become an emoticon (like (age: 18))

At least on my forums because I set it to that :)

ive just edited the file like it says, now what do i do?

how do i tell it what forum to create the post into ?

$greetings_forum=xx; // CHANGE ME: Birthday forum ID

That took care of it, thanks! :)

cheers mate

I don't necessarily want anything more than Happy Birthday to Username--no ages, no dates or birth etc.

How would I do that?

I'm getting this too, what did you have to do to make it work? I tried modifying the birthday file, 3 time and each time I get the same thing?

I'm pretty sure I followed the directions and did everything it said to do.

Thanks
Chris.

Something else I noticed is, that it says that each person was born on November 30th?

Happy Birthday to , on May 10, 2005
was born on November 30 (Age: Not telling! )

Anyone have any ideas?

Anyone have an idea what I need to fix?

I installed it tested it and it worked. I would really like to see the usergroup option employed in this though.

The array in birthday.php right?
Like this?
I added mine there but I'm still missing peopes in the birthday threads being posted. I have 4 b-days today and only 2 are posted :surprised:

Any ideas?
I added the groups to the array and went into the task manager and ran birthday task again and nada!

Thanks...

anyone have any idea, why the users names aren't showing up, and it always says November 30th?

I keep looking over the directions, and I think I did everything the way I was suppose too.

You mean like this?
That is how I have it. It works all except the fact that it only post 1-3 birthdays out of 1-10 birthdays for that day :disappointed:

Should I have it below the }

Thanks ;)

I have this issue as well.

Anyone know how to fix it?

Try removing the require_once line for global.php.

I really don't see why that line should be in a cronjob.

When I commented it out, it ran into trouble finding
./includes/functions_misc.php
./includes/functions_newpost.php

If i have time and don't forget, i will try to have a look at this hack tomorrow.

much obliged sir

You do realise that the way it's been written means that only people who allow e-mails from administrators will be included. So maybe a lot of your users have this option set to no.

Does this hack always say i'm not telling for age even when members have full date of birth registered with site the boards birthday list says user id and age but when this hack posts on my board all i get is (i'm bot telling :) )

I did a test install of this hack today on a vB 3.0.7 board, and it runs perfect without any modifications. Please double check your edits.

What version of vB are you using?

PS I suggest the instructions of step 5 tp be changed from "Add below" to "Add Above". With the origianl instructions the mail will only be send if the cronjob is set to be logged. This don't make much sense to me.

Actually i released that all of those 3 require_once lines are really unneeded. The hack will function the same if they are removed.

Leaving them in place where they are now could even be a (minor) security risk. If they would stay in this hack, i suggest you move them below the following line:

Does this work in 3.0.8

I did a clean install and have checked all the edits and this is still not working

Help Required...

Never Mind.... Got it working after commenting out a few lines.. my bad...

Will this be ported to 3.5?

nicework thanks!

[high]* utw-Mephisto want to know as well[/high]

I've had this hack installed and running fine for the past few days without any issues, until today. It just so happens that no one has a birthday today, but I still received an email like this:

Here are today's birthdays:



Birthday Thread:
http://www.cafetrends.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1898

And it started a new thread just like it did before but without any names. Any help is greatly appreciated.

How can I add a small animated birthday banner below "user birthday(i'm not telling :)) in the birthday threads
I uploaded banner into my forum/images/banners file

[vB 3.0.9]

installed as instructed; works perfectly!

works great on 3.0.7 -- to creater: i would suggest that you let the installers know that in order to display bdays, the user MUST have receive emails from admin selected. i ran into the problem the other day when i kept running my cron and not knowing the user needed the option selectd.

I think that it is a beautiful hack for vB 3.5, please update the hack for us :D

If not being ported do you give someone else the permission to port it over?

[high]* westi need this hack for 3.5 .. pls :)[/high]

I too would love to have this hack... for 3.5

It is available for 3.5

<a href="https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=100607&highlight=Birthday" target="_blank">https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showt...light=Birthday</a>

Is there an edit that will allow me to let only people that are active on the board to get a birthday thread....ive realized that im sending out birthday threads to people that dont post at all ....

Thanks.

Peace

I really love this mod but wish there was an option to post in an existing thread rather than create a new post each time. How easy would that be to do? :)