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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 \\=^))

Logician · #2 06-09-2002, 10:04 PM

IMO screenshot for such a hack is very unneccessary, but if you are "I dont believe UNLESS I see" type, here you go:

* Private Message Hack sends to your users (customizable)
* Daily Admin Report (optional) produced by the Hack

Needless to say these PMs in the screenshots are automatically created by the hack without any admin interference/action.

Floris · #3 06-09-2002, 10:11 PM

One word: THISISWAYCOOLANDMOSTDEFINITLYGOINGFORHACKOFTHEMONT HJULY

Nicely done and I think I will soon take the time to install this. I have been doing everything manually now, but this will be a fantastic solution! Very cool.

Boofo · #4 06-09-2002, 10:42 PM

And here I thought my wife was the only one who could say that much in one breath.

Quote:

Originally posted by xiphoid
One word: THISISWAYCOOLANDMOSTDEFINITLYGOINGFORHACKOFTHEMONT HJULY

Boofo · #5 06-09-2002, 10:55 PM

You might want to check this again. Option 4 is missing from the list.

(No way to create a thread).

Quote:

Originally posted by Logician
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.

The hack is beta tested by many users over a month before the release and proven to be stable. (BTW. thx to all beta testers especially to Dark_Wizard, Boofo, DslTeam, C-Pr0mpt for returning feedback)

Enjoy the hack and if you install the hack please click INSTALL thank you..

Logician \\=^))

Allstar DC · #6 06-10-2002, 04:13 AM

logican, this hack is working great.

sorry for not giving any feed back before
i had so many probs with my board that i totally forgot about it

lordofgun · #7 06-10-2002, 04:49 AM

Is there an option where this would only post a Happy Birthday thread to member with a certain number of posts? I don't want to clutter my boards with hundreds of happy birthday messages for members whoi have never posted.

Thanks in advance! GREAT HACK!

JulianD · #8 06-10-2002, 05:38 AM

Thanks for the hack! I will install it on my localboard and see how it goes

Logician · #9 06-10-2002, 06:09 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Boofo
You might want to check this again. Option 4 is missing from the list. (No way to create a thread).

@Boofo: Nope it's there: Just as a new independent option:

If you want it to create threads, set this option a few lines below:

PHP Code:


			
// Do you want the hack to automatically create a thread to greet the birthdays as well?

// 1-- > Yes, 0 --> No

$thread_create=1

@lordofgun: I'll soon give you a code to integrate this feature..

Boofo · #10 06-10-2002, 06:19 AM

Ahhhh, you hid it on me.

There was no number 4 in the options at the top (where it used to be) so it threw me off. Thank you very much, yeni (that is the word, if I remeber, right...if I don't remember right, forgive me for whatever I just said.

).

I would like the code for the users posts also, when you have it. Thanks!

Quote:

Originally posted by Logician

@Boofo: Nope it's there: Just as a new independent option:
If you want it to create threads, set this option a few lines below:

PHP Code:

// Do you want the hack to automatically create a thread to greet the birthdays as well? // 1-- > Yes, 0 --> No $thread_create=1

@lordofgun: I'll soon give you a code to integrate this feature..

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