Profile Enhancements - Birthday Thread and PM generator

<a href="http://www.AusPhotography.net.au" target="_blank">www.AusPhotography.net.au</a> Birthday Thread and PM generator

This product provides a simple way to create both an automatic Birthday greeting thread and forum member birthday PM.

Features:

1. Configurable greeting text with name, age (optional), and birthday
2. Excludable usergroups (eg. banned etc)
3. Creates a thread in selectable forum and sends a PM from selected user (admin or other)
4. Runs as a vBulletin scheduled task (vB cron job)
5. Honours forum members birthday profile settings
6. Only sends birthdays for members with recent forum activity (configurable)
7. Adjusts for forum members time-zone so the greeting will be on their birthday

Uses:

1. Creates a Database table to track birthday processed
2. One additional file vBulletin scheduled task (vB cron job)
3. Product installation file

Installation:

1. Copy ap_birthday.php to the forum ./includes/cron directory
2. Install the product file
3. Configure it via AdminCP/Settings/Options
4. Disable the vBulletin birthday emailer in AdminCP / Scheduled tasks
Done!

Enjoy! It will probably work on vB3.6+ as well.

Update 2013-04-12: Working with 4.2.0
Update 1.1.2 if zero active post use 'lastactivity' instead (bugfix)

Kym

[AusPhotography]

Originally Posted by cykelmyggen

Thanks for the generous offer, unfortunately I haven't got any coding skills ;-)

Time to learn? In this case it is very easy, a great way to pick up some skills

[boazor]

Is this support 4.1.12?

[AusPhotography]

Yes 4.1.12 - no problems! (We run 4.1.12 ourselves).

Kym

[JustAskJulie]

Can you please show what needs to be changed in php code to set posts to 0?

[JustAskJulie]

Originally Posted by ricktas

Don't need to, just set the post count to zero

it doesn't allow it from the admin panel, it defaults to 1. You addressed this in an earlier post stating that it had to be changed in the .php file. Can you post the code that needs changed?

[AusPhotography]

I've updated the product to allow zero active posts

Also, it works on our 4.2.0 system

Kym

[Greek Wizard]

Surprised no one has mentioned this, but the xml is hard coded to "yourforum" so when the cron runs and a thread is created the link in the post is wrong as it's something like yourforum.com/forum/member,......

Would be nice to see this take your path automatically, but an easy fix is to edit the product xml to your own correct path and reinstall/over write the xml.

[AusPhotography]

The 'hard' coded bit is not.
It is a default value in a parameter you are supposed to edit

<defaultvalue><![CDATA[Happy {xx} Birthday {username}!  

Hope you have a wonderful day, and very best wishes from everyone here at the Forum.

({bdate})]]></defaultvalue>

[Janmaat]

Originally Posted by cykelmyggen

As I run a non-english forum I would like to know if it is possible to remove the "th" after the age and the english version of date (f.ex. 20th= 20 and "7th of August"=7. august) ?

Me too!

How can I change this? Could 't find it.

[smirkley]

I am going to give this a try. Been using the other mod but it is always a day early and changes the birthdate to be a day early.

I know this is cron run, and as such if you have ten crons stacked up in the schedule and no visitors in the wee hours, it will take a pageview for each cron to run consecutively. That obviously will cause a delay, but better a tad late in the morning than a whole day early I think.