Birthday month in users post
 

This will place the user's birthday month in the user's post. Based on thread found here.

Install time: 1 minute

Attachment in following post.

This is my first hack and there is really nothing to it.

Enjoy

CDitty

Here is the attachment.

CDitty

Interesting. Nice small hack cditty :)

Thanks.

Great :)
fnx :P

thanks for the hack...been needing this ;)

Nice one indeed. If our postbit wasn't so crowded I'd install it here. :D

wish instead of month it displays the zodiac sign

Should be really simple. I'll work on this tonight after I get in.

Chris

Well, I thought that I would be able to do this fairly easy. But I can't. This is the code I was going to implement within it, but this will not give you a "true" zodiac.
http://www.phpwizard.net/resources/p...ty/zodiac.php3

Perhaps someone here can do this with greater efficency that I would be able to.

Chris

I like this hack. Is there anyway to get the Day along with the month to show up there too?

Sure. Just change this....
with this
If you would rather show the full month name instead of the abbr version, then just change the M to a F. Be sure to have the M & F in caps.

Chris

Thank you CDitty
It worked like a charm

cditty, what's the problem with that zodiac code? You need to use the numeric form of the month (1), not Jan. :)

I was thinking/hoping that code would be a quick down & dirty cut & paste job. But thinking about it, anything I might be able to come up with won't have the actual zodiac signs on it. ie...Capricorn is in Dec and Jan.

Chris

Why? That function you showed us takes care of that, all you need to do is give it the month and day, it'll return you the sign.

With many thanks to FireFly, here is a version for zodiac signs.

Chris

For the zodiac signs version, when I put "$post['sign']" in the postbit, I'm getting this error.

Parse error: parse error, expecting `T_STRING' or `T_VARIABLE' or `T_NUM_STRING' in functions.php(304) : eval()'d code on line 14

$post[sign], without quoting the index name.

Thanks. It works now, but in the instructions, it says
"Place $post['sign'] in someplace in the postbit template where you want it to appear."

How did you get it to work? I got all sorts of errors when I did it without the quotes. :)

Is there a way to check and see if the user has entered a birthday in their profile and if not, not show anything (like Birthday= and then a blank space)? I want it to show up if they have entered a birthday and have nothing show up if they haven't.

I ran into a strange problem. If the user doesn't have a birthday listed in their profile, it will always say November 30 as their birthday in the postbit template. Any way around this?