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Automatic Greeting Email/PM/Threads for Member Birthdays · **Released**: 06-09-2002

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 \\=^))

maestrosdelweb · #**142** 04-23-2003, 11:37 AM

For next vertion, How about a birthday cake showing next to the birthday user in all threads and memberlist??

dede1 · #**143** 05-12-2003, 06:18 AM

Hi

I have chop built in that 2.3.0 however nothing happened neither a
P.M/Mail am sent away nor the birthday in the forum registered.

Does someone know advice?

Logician · #**144** 05-12-2003, 07:12 AM

play with:

// Your estimated daily visitor number for the board (main page only!)
// If the hack sometimes sends the greetings late, lower the number.
$estimated_load=30;

and lower it..

dede1 · #**145** 05-12-2003, 09:06 AM

Ok thanks

dede1 · #**146** 05-12-2003, 10:23 AM

Thanks that was it runs now it :classic:

OmaniMan · #**147** 05-27-2003, 12:57 AM

Great .... Interesting

Alien · #**148** 05-27-2003, 08:54 PM

Very very nice work... I have it installed now, just have to test it!

-Jason

monstergamer · #**149** 06-26-2003, 07:12 AM

testing it now

gmarik · #**150** 06-26-2003, 09:08 AM

Nice to see this.
Well done, brother.

monstergamer · #**151** 06-26-2003, 09:17 PM

i did the debug mode and it sent me over 100 pm's of the same people
how do i make it stop
*in scared voice - please make it stop*

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