Automatic Birthday Thread
 

Automatic Birthday Thread

Description
This Hack creates a birthday thread in the forum you select, an optional report is sent to an eMail address you specify.
You can also choose to give them uCash (if you have uCash installed).

User's privacy selection is taken care of, eg. only those that allow their DOB to be displayed will be listed.

Credits to ChurchMedia for the original vBulletin 3.0 Hack.

Details
1 Product XML (4 settings, 14 phrases)
1 Cronscript


History
1.0.0
Initial Version

1.0.1

• Removed some debug code
• Fixed phrase missing linebreak
• Fixed userlist not being shown in body
• Added option to only list active users

This Hack is unsupported! All support requests except proven bugs will be IGNORED

FAQ

1. Q: This Hack does not work!
   A: Although it is possible that you have discovered a new bug which causes this Hack to not work, there is a good chance that there are other problems:
   • Did you select the correct Forum?
   • Did you enter the correct UserID?
   • Are you using the original phrases?
   • Do you have https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=96018 installed?
     This Hack has a bug which might cause failure.

first to click install thank you.

Im so excited to get this in place woo hoo!

Is it possible to get the birthdays listed in a column instead of side by side?

Thanks,
Itworx4me

In the ADMINCP in the Automatic Birthday Thread Options is a link called messagebits

Click on it and change the phrase by pressing ENTER at the end of the line :D

I asked the same question via PM and this was Andreas answer so thank him... :D

Thanks worked like a charm

Is there a setting to choose to do this for active members only? I mean, there are always those that register for whatever reasons and never post. I would hate to have b-day threads for peeps that nobody knows. :D

I dont use uCash

i have Reputation Power and Points
your also allowed to use the points for the Casino
so this wont work for the way my system is setup ?

by the way installed. thanks

Thanks, I was trying to port this over, but you beat me to it and actually made it a product too!

Awesome. I have been waiting for this one.

Thanks Bro...awesome work...

same theres no reason to say Happy Bday to a unknown non poster....

Well, it is unsupported. *shrugs*

today was the first post by this hack and this what I got .

Tittle :
Happy Birthday to Spider on 11-12-2005
thead :
www.my2wheelheaven.com members , Here are today's birthdays! Have a great birthday!

how I can make it to post the list of names on the thread not just on tittle?

TIA

Before I use this ... who is the thead started by or can this be specified in the admincp?

any user you pick by id on admincp.

You can specify the user who is creating the thread in the admincp

You are the man! :)

Same here...no users named in the post itself.

Thread prefix hack installed?

Run the cron manually and tell me the output

Works great. The members are happy. they missed this from 3.0.x. The only thing I see strange is I am the designated poster but my signature does not show in any post created by this hack. Of course it is still installed and will remain so. A missing signature is not a reason for me to remove a wonderful modification.

this one is a belting idea, but im curious....whats to stop ppl abusing this by changing their birthdays every day, and so gaining massive amounts of ucash, if that option is enabled????

You Change the Registration setting to lock the birthday after its set :P

Thats in Vbulletin Options

I would like to see the title be today's birthdays
and have the subject be the members name instead of in the title

I would also like to know how to customize the b-day post that is done

Look in the ACP under the options for this hack. There are 3 links you can click to change the messages that are posted.

Is it possible to modify this hack to create one thread per user?

So if 3 people have a birthday today, then there would be three separate threads?

It is nice as it is, but it is a little impersonal to lump everyone into the one thread.

German translation-xml :)

Product XML removed and added as language XML to first post. Thank you :)

Yup, I'm having the same problem. When I run the cron manually from the admincp, it shows the entire post correctly. When I just let the cron run on its own, it doesn't put the greettext in the post itself.

EDIT: Saw there was an update, installing 1.01 now...

How to i get it to post the thread at midnight (GMT) , its posting it at 6:05 pm :ermm:

You can go into the Scheduled Task Manager within the admincp. You will see the cron job for the Happy Birthday thread, and it is set at a certain hour. Hit edit, and change the hour to what you'd like. You can see if you did it right by seeing what the next scheduled time is for that cron job.

yes did that , set it at 00:05 yet the 2next" time is 18:05 :ermm:

thank you thou :)

It's a time zone thing. Change the hour to something else. See how it affects the next time the job is to be run. You should quickly see how many hours offset the setting is. Find the right hour to put in there, and you're good.

ahhhh nice one, thanks mate, i'll try that now, its 01:18 here in UK :)

Set it at 19 05 , next is now 19-11-05 00:05 :)

Thank you , only time will tell if it does it, hopefully there will be an active birthday tomorrow lol

[high]* Bounce clicks install as forgot to earlier :)[/high]

Installed. It now posts in the the Body. Option for only active members. Nice.

ok a question on this i installed this before i wentto bed woke up and there was 50 threads to the same person... how can i stop this i have it set up to run on the 23 hour but it was going and going lol.... like i said there was over 50 threads of the happy birthday message...

i just re-up'd the most recent download and the Existing Install/Uninstall Code is 1.0.0 in the Product Manager... has the initial file not been upgraded to reflect 1.0.1 changes yet or does the install/uninstall code part not matter?

The install code hasn't changed, so it is still 1.0.0.

any word on what would cause this to happen?

You only set the hour, not the minute, so it would run every minute for the entire hour.

(isn't hour 23 a bit late ? their birthday is almost over at 11pm in the evening !).

lol well i wanted to make sure i was up to see if it did it again lol so what would be best to set it at like 1 this way its early in the morning?