Automatic Greeting Email/PM/Threads for Member Birthdays

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 \\=^))

[Logician]

Originally posted by Intex
I set this up last night and it certainly sent an email, PM and put a thread in a forum as I specified in my options. However it only put the subject title in, i.e. Happy Birthday to Our Members for the thread and no body content, Happy Birthday !!! in the PM but no body content etc.

Sounds like a template problem. You can
1- make sure templates are created and their names are exact (check CAPS too!)

2- Create the templates in all template sets, if you have more than one..

Either one should fix the problem.. :glasses:

[Okiewan]

It occassionaly leaves-out the names in posts on my board as well.

[Logician]

Originally posted by Okiewan
It occassionaly leaves-out the names in posts on my board as well.

if you mean it does not congratulate the birthday for some members this is related to $excluded_usergroups settings. By default usergroup 3 is set to be ignored so if member is from usergroup 3 (ie waiting for email confirmation), hack will ignore them..

Change the settings if you want otherwise..

[Okiewan]

Not the problem... it leaves ALL names out, meaning, a blank post. Seems to do it every few days.

[NuclioN]

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare make_seed() in /www/global.php(321) : eval()'d code on line 323

???

[Logician]

Originally posted by NuclioN
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare make_seed() in /www/global.php(321) : eval()'d code on line 323

???

You have another hack that uses the same function. Just delete these line from my hack code to avoid the clash:

PHP Code:

function make_seed() 
{
list($usec, $sec) = explode(' ', microtime());
return (float) $sec + ((float) $usec * 100000);
} 


it leaves ALL names out, meaning, a blank post. Seems to do it every few days.

Do you have admin notification on? Turn it on and see if its content is also blank or not? Also try to create templates in all templates sets if you have more than 1..

[NuclioN]

Tnx Logician, it works. Clicks install

[Intex]

I actuallly cut and paste the text titles etc. so those should be ok. However I do have two templates and I didn't copy the template to both. Since you mentioned it, I reckon that must be the answer .

Thx. m8 and keep up the cool hacks.

Originally posted by Logician

Sounds like a template problem. You can
1- make sure templates are created and their names are exact (check CAPS too!)

2- Create the templates in all template sets, if you have more than one..

Either one should fix the problem.. :glasses:

[ChurchMedia]

Fantastic hack! I had been emailing users on thier birthdays. Now it's automatic!

I'd like to give them a "birthday present" of 50 points (Lesane's store hack). I know the code is:

$DB_site->query("UPDATE user SET storep=storep+50 where userid='$userinfo[userid]'");

But I'm not sure where to put it in the index.php file. Any help?

[Logician]

I'd like to give them a "birthday present" of 50 points (Lesane's store hack). I know the code is:

I see.. This should work:

edit hack code (index.php), find:

PHP Code:

$celebrated_at_least_one++; 


After that add:

PHP Code:

$DB_site->query("UPDATE user SET storep=storep+50 where userid='$birthday_children[userid]'"); 


Enjoy..