Version: 1.00, by Logician
Developer Last Online: Nov 2023
Version: 2.2.x
Rating:
Released: 06-09-2002
Last Update: Never
Installs: 205
No support by the author.
This hack will automatically greet the birthdays of your board members by sending them:
Private Messages
Emails
Both
or by creating a birthday celebration thread in a specific forum.
Features:
* Does NOT require cron jobs so everybody can use it regardless of their server settings/rights.
* You can send PMs, emails (or both) or you can choose to send them PM if they can receive PM or else send email.
* The Hack can create special greeting threads for birthdays. (optional)
* Some usergroups (like banned users) can be excluded from automatic greetings.
* Admin can choose to receive a daily report via Email or PM about the greeted birthdays. (optional)
* Compatible with ALL vbulletin versions I know.
* Carefully coded to not to increase your SQL load and its quite performance-friendly. (More info about performance issues)
* New Added Feature: To greet only members who have more than X messages or who have visited your board in the last X days, see here
* New Added Feature: You can change his style in the day user has his birthday. Check here)
* New Added Feature: You can play Happy Birthday Song to your members in their birthdays. Check here
The hack is beta tested by many users for a long time before the release and proven to be quite stable. (BTW. thx to all beta testers especially to Dark_Wizard, Boofo, DslTeam, C-Pr0mpt for returning feedback).
WARNING: I strongly suggest:
a) Be careful while installing this hack (especially in step 2). If you install it wrongly, your members may get a lot of irrelevant greetings.
b) To make sure you installed it correctly, turn on DEBUG mode AND administrator notifications in the options of the hack while you are installing it. So the hack will NOT send any notifications to members but only send daily reports to admin. Keep an eye on these reports for a few days and if you made sure you installed it correctly and it works ok, you can safely turn off debug mode.
Enjoy the hack and if you install the hack please click INSTALL, thank you..
Logician \\=^))
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Originally posted by Littlebit Hi guys,
I want to double check...if I'm in time zone -5 and my server is -7, I enter -2 in the $timeset ?
Thank you for sharing a great hack btw!
if you set it to 0, greetings will be sent close to 12:00 AM server Time. If it's +1, it's 1:00 AM server time. According to this rule, you can set whatever you like..
Very cool hack Logician!
Question about the .wav hack... installed and tested, plays, but it loops continuously and each time the forumhome is visited. ?
Originally posted by Okiewan Very cool hack Logician!
Question about the .wav hack... installed and tested, plays, but it loops continuously
Looping should be a browser issue. For Internet Explorer (4+) "PLAYCOUNT=1" commands makes sure it play once. For Netscape "LOOP=2" does the same. So using both should ensure it plays once in both Netscape and IE. I remember I had tested it before releasing and it was playing once here. But if you have another browser like Opera or Mozilla (or different versions of IE, Netscape), I don't know how they'd behave.
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and each time the forumhome is visited. ?
Yes that's true. Unfortunately there is no easy way for the script to know it already played the song for this user before, so it plays in every visit of forum home if day is user's birthday..
I had a strange thing happen to me tonight. I installed the hack on my Windows 2k test server (an offline server I use to test hacks before putting them on my public server - both are identical, but one is on win2k and one is on freebsd).
Anyway - I installed the hack, did all the sql stuff, date verified etc. - I did this around 11:30pm.. so, I only had to wait 30 minutes and figured maybe something would happen.
Sure enough, I got a popup, a ton of PMs, and a TON of forum posts. This on a forum with only 50 some odd users.
What happened was that a message was generated to EVERY user and a forum message was also posted for every user.
What could have caused this? What a mess - boy, I'm glad I don't have that many users yet, even on my test system. I'm concerned that I had it set to option 6 and some emails may have also been generated - even on my test system, they would have gone out (confused users tomorrow)
What could cause this? I do'nt want to post this on my production system until I figure this out.
I verified the date I put in my sql query and it was accurate...
Hmmm...
?
Just FYI: I'm running version 2.2.9 in case that matters. Also, here is one of the Greeting Reports:
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Daily Birthday Greetings Report
Birthdays for day (2002-09-22) celebrated at January 13, 2003, 12:00 am (Server Time)
Automatic Greeting Email/PM/Threads for Member Birthdays Details »»
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12-06-2002, 08:59 AM
