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 \\=^))

[David Bott]

Bingo! NY

[Logician]

Small Bug Fix:

Small bug fix with "Create Thread" feature:

Find:

PHP Code:

$log_postid=$DB_site->insert_id(); 


After that line add:

PHP Code:

// Updating Forum
$DB_site->query("UPDATE forum SET replycount=replycount+1,threadcount=threadcount+1,lastpost='".time()."',lastposter='".addslashes($greeter_name)."' WHERE forumid = $greetings_forum");

// Updating User's Post
$DB_site->query("UPDATE user SET posts=posts+1 WHERE userid=$greeter"); 


Save and upload your index.php..That's it.. Now created threads will be visible in the forum display too and these threads will increase the thread starter's post number.

Original hack file in the thread is already updated so this fix only applies to users who installed the hack prior to 12.June.2002.

Logician

[Me2Be]

I've just installed it and now I'm waiting until tomorrow LOL...

Couple of requests if this is possible...

1] When it created the thread, can we have it add that day's date in the subject heading? Like "Today's Birthdays: June 13, 2002" -- this way the threads won't all be the same subject every day

2] On the list of that day's birthdays on the thread, is it possible to have each username linked to either their profile link, or better yet, 'send a PM' to them? (All of my members use PMs)

Thanks! I can't wait to see what happens tomorrow!

[Logician]

Originally posted by Me2Be
[B]1] When it created the thread, can we have it add that day's date in the subject heading? Like "Today's Birthdays: June 13, 2002" -- this way the threads won't all be the same subject every day
[B]

Find:

PHP Code:

// Creating Thread 


After that add:

PHP Code:

$todays_date11= date("F j, Y", mktime (date("H")+$timeset, date("i"), date("s"), date("m"), date("d"), date("Y")));
$title3.=$todays_date11; 


2] On the list of that day's birthdays on the thread, is it possible to have each username linked to either their profile link, or better yet, 'send a PM' to them? (All of my members use PMs)

Their usernames are already linked to their profile, by default.. (clickable)

I can't wait to see what happens tomorrow!

Let me guess: Hack will greet the birthdays hehe

Enjoy..
Logician

[Me2Be]

Originally posted by Logician
[B]

PHP Code:

$todays_date11.....=$todays_date11; 


Thanks for the quick response!
Do I have to add anything to the templates to get that to work or will it automatically add it?

[Logician]

Originally posted by Me2Be
Thanks for the quick response!
Do I have to add anything to the templates to get that to work or will it automatically add it?

nope nothing needed for templates. This modification changes only the subject of the thread (upon your request) and thread subject has nothing to do with any templates.

But you may like to change thread title variable ($title3) in the options part. This modification will add the date of celebration at the end of this variable, so you should regard a suitable title like:

PHP Code:

$title3='Todays Birthdays :'; 


when it is parsed it will become:

Todays Birthdays: June 14, 2002

[Boofo]

Don't you mean the $title3 variable?

Originally posted by Logician

nope nothing needed for templates. This modification changes only the subject of the thread (upon your request) and thread subject has nothing to do with any templates.

But you may like to change thread title variable ($thread3) in the options part. This modification will add the date of celebration at the end of this variable, so you should regard a suitable title like:

PHP Code:

$thread3='Todays Birthdays :'; 


when it is parsed it will become:

Todays Birthdays: June 14, 2002

[Logician]

Originally posted by Boofo
Don't you mean the $title3 variable?

yep $title3 it is.. 2.30 AM here and I really answered many questions.. Need some sleep Good night!

[Boofo]

Good night, my friend.

Originally posted by Logician

yep $title3 it is.. 2.30 AM here and I really answered many questions.. Need some sleep Good night!

[Me2Be]

Worked beautifully - thank you!