[Colin F]

Tips and Tricks

What's with the ugly US date format in the title?
If you want to change the date format in the title, just change the variable dateformat.
The european format is: d.m.Y (with leading zeros on day and month)
or j.n.Y (without leading zeros on day and month).
All the recognized characters in the date format can be found under http://www.php.net/date

It's all english! Where can I translate it? ORHow can I change the post text?
The whole posttext is saved in the postmessage variable. It can be translated, changed to your liking. New lines are achieved simply by having a new line in the code, no <br /> or \n\r. Also, smileys,bbcode,img tag as well as HTML can be used if you have these options enabled for the forum specified in forumid

I want all these event threads to have a special icon
Easy. Just edit the variable iconid to the iconid of the icon you wish to use.

Can I use the Event poster as the user that posts the thread?
Sure. Just change the 2 lines

PHP Code:

$botuserid = 1; //userid of poster 
$botusername = "EventBot"; // username of poster 


to

PHP Code:

$botuserid = $bbuserinfo[userid]; //userid of poster 
$botusername = $bbuserid[username]; // username of poster 


Careful: these posts don't update the users post count.

Questions and Problems

The postcount of my bot/the user that is used to post threads hasn't changed!
It isn't supposed to. As the whole system is automated, I don't think they count as posts. Also, no one is interested in the postcount of a bot