[Floris]

Originally Posted by ChurchMedia

This hack is based on the Birthday Hack by Logician and includes some of the original code. It will automatically create a Happy Birthday thread in a specified forum, listing the people with birthdays for that day. Then other members can post their happy birthday wishes in the thread.

I had the original hack installed on my VB2 board and when I upgraded to VB3 my members missed it. Luckily, it's really easy to implement.

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Files to modify: /includes/cron/birthday.php
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Instructions are in the attached text file. The mod should take about 5 minutes.

Change the variables for the userid, username and forumid.

You can customize the message in between the <<< EOF and EOF; tags. You could also ad IMG tags with an image of some kind, like in my screenshot.
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Let me know if anyone has any ideas on how to improve this. I'd like to see:
1) The age calculated and shown
2) The birthday shown in this format: March 17, 1970
3) A link to the thread in their birthday email

Enjoy (and thanks for the inspiration and some code, Logician!)

Members pick up quite quickly that the thread is automated, and on a busy board you also end up with a forum full of the same topics.

I rather have a cron file that run once per month to insert a new thread for the birthdays of that month. This way members can congratulate and others have time to participate.