Description: This hack prints some message or displays a picture in a post when that particular user has a birthday on that moment.

Version tested: 2.01, but will probaby work on all 2.0 versions

instructions:

1. Create a new file called birthday.php with the following content:
   
   <?php
   
   $today_day = date("d",mktime(date("H"),date("i"),date("s"),date ("m"),date("d"),date("Y"))+($bbuserinfo[timezoneoffset]-$timeoffset)*3600);
   $today_month = date("m",mktime(date("H"),date("i"),date("s"),date ("m"),date("d"),date("Y"))+($bbuserinfo[timezoneoffset]-$timeoffset)*3600);
   $today_year = date("Y",mktime(date("H"),date("i"),date("s"),date ("m"),date("d"),date("Y"))+($bbuserinfo[timezoneoffset]-$timeoffset)*3600);
   $userday = explode("-",$post[birthday]);
   
   if($today_day == $userday[2] && $today_month == $userday[1])
   { $bday = explode("-",$userinfo[birthday]);
   if(date("Y")>$bday[0] and $bday[0]>1901 && $bday[0]!='0000')
   { $birthday = @date($calformat1,mktime(0,0,0,$bday[1],$bday[2],$bday[0]));
   }
   else
   { // lets send a valid year as some PHP3 don't like year to be 0
   // $calformat2 should not contania year identifier so the year doesn't matter
   $birthday = @date($calformat2,mktime(0,0,0,$bday[1],$bday[2],1993));
   }
   if($birthday=="")
   { $birthday="$bday[1]-$bday[2]-$bday[0]";
   }
   if($today_year > $userday[0] && $userday[0] != '0000')
   { $age = $today_year-$userday[0];
   }
   
   eval ("\$post[has_a_birthday] = \"".gettemplate("postbit_birthday")."\";");
   }
   
   ?>
2. create a new template called postbit_birthday
   
   with some text like:
   
   Congrats! It's $post[username]'s birthday!
   
   (you can use the following variables in this template:
   
   $birthday: Will contain the birthday of the user in a nice format
   $age: Will only contain a value (obviously the age of this user) when the user has filled in his birthyear
   
3. backup showthread.php
4. open showthread.php
   
   and add:
   
   // Begin birthdayhack
   include("birthday.php");
   // End birthdayhack
   
   before:
   
   eval("\$post[profile] = \"".gettemplate("postbit_profile")."\";");
5. save showthread.php
6. insert $post[has_a_birthday] somewhere in the postbit template

enjoy :)

nice one dude.. Look alright that does.

do you have a demo?

You can see it in action on my forum.

Great hack. you did a good job on it.

just installed it, works great, thanks!

Thanks Mas*Mind :)

I just tried to install it and I get an error on line 25 of birthday.php.

All I did was cut & paste from here. Wierd.

This is the line:
Any ideas?

Mines on line 26......

yup....the [php] code screws code up:

eval ("\$post[has_a_birthday] = \"".gettemplate("postbit_birthday")."";

should be:

eval ("\$post[has_a_birthday] = \"".gettemplate("postbit_birthday")."\";");

now the problem is here: in showthread.php
// Begin birthdayhack
include("birthday.php");
// End birthdayhack

something is screwed up with the code here-im getting errors

any ideas?

Working for me. Thanks for the revised code.

Maverick, what errors are you getting now?

Chris

Warning: Failed opening 'birthday.php' for inclusion (include_path='') in e:\program files\nusphere\apache\htdocs\upload\showthread.php on line 479

That means that it can't find it. You sure the birthday.php file is there? Could you have named it .php3 by accident?

Chris

Right u are-thanks 4 helping me :)

I had to change
to

on line 25 of birthday.php

Well its not displaying it correctly, so I will put it in this attachment.

Warning: Failed opening 'birthday.php' for inclusion (include_path='.') in f:\apache\htdocs\divinefxp\showthread.php on line 430

here's the error i got ...

help

read a few posts up

I know, there's some problem with the [php]-code... I allready changed my original instructions

does this slow down the page loading much?
anyone know?

nope, not noticable anyway

Awesome hack! It didn't work for me in 2.0, but as soon as I upgraded to 2.01 it worked beautifully. Thank you so much!
TigerLily:)

Do these instructions need any updating? They're not working for me on my 2.0.3 board i'm testing...

For example, the line:

Does not exist in showthread.php

I tried to include it in a couple of other places in there (like near the global.php include, but it did not display a thing in threads..

Ideas?

Thanks! :)

Problem solved!

The line mentioned above is located in:

/admin/functions.php

Yay. :) Now works perfectly in 2.0.3!

Great hack!

it's a nice hack~~~

so interesting~~~

thanks your hack it's work very well in my forum!!!

so it wont work on 2.0.0? if not then i am not going to try it :P

it doesnt owrk in 2.0.3, i cant find what is needed in showthread.php !!!

:( :(

can someone help me add this hack !

Read a few lines up...

done,. thats fine

but whee do I go to see if this hack is working fine and also where do I upload my birthday.php file ??

+ I do not understand what I have to do in step "6"

can anyone help

thanks

I can't find that line in functions.php .

Not in showthread or functions in ver 2.2.1

Any update available? Great hack!

Works here too. (2.2.2)

hi,

can someone tell me what code i have to use when i want to show the age of the user in postbit also if he has no birthday??

Thanks!

For some reason this doesn't work for me in vBulletin v2.2.6.

any advices on this problem with 2.2.6 ?

Schorsch

Hi. Would you mind a little more help with a hack? I have 2.2.7 and really enjoy this hack. The only problem is it won't 'turn off'. So one member is having a 2 day birthday. =/

Any help would be appreciated.