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 \\=^))

[Heineken77]

Sweet, installed and no errors this time! You were right about MySQL being down..I've noticed from time to time I'll get an error .. hit refresh and it's fixed. Must be some host/server related issues.

Unfortunately I installed this 10 mins after 12am So have to wait 24 hours .. but sure it will work

Thanks again bro!
Heineken

[Peace]

The thread is posting in the wrong forum. Which file do I go into to change the forum number? Thanks.

[Logician]

Originally posted by Peace
The thread is posting in the wrong forum. Which file do I go into to change the forum number? Thanks.

in index.php:

PHP Code:

// If you choose to create a new thread in your board, enter the forum id:
$greetings_forum = 2; 


[Peace]

Thanks.

[Mutt]

love this hack. I only had 1 problem of multiple messages to the same member being sent, but I already found the solution here. Thanks! The members like it and so do I.

I'm thinking about using this to send calendar reminders. thanks again.

[M.C.]

supa hack! but one request to change: i made in options that hack to make a thread, but i do not want to make thread for everybody birthday, i want to do it only for moderators... i look in options and see

$excluded_usergroups=array(''); but if i put some usergroup here they stop recive greetings and via email & PM as well. I just wont to turn thread creation only for moderators but want let email & PM creation for all groups.

P.S. Sorry for my english. I hope you got that i want... :classic:

[Logician]

Originally posted by M.C.
supa hack! but one request to change: i made in options that hack to make a thread, but i do not want to make thread for everybody birthday, i want to do it only for moderators... i look in options and see

I understand what you want but sorry, it's not a 2 minute modification. Requires a change in hack's algorithm and moreover extensive testing to make sure it's working ok..

[M.C.]

Logician, ok... but you will?

[M.C.]

and one more improvement - can you add in email & PM URL of thread if created?

[Erwin]

Great hack, mate. Been using it for a few weeks, working great. The members love it.