Automatic Birthday Thread

Automatic Birthday Thread

Description
This Hack creates a birthday thread in the forum you select, an optional report is sent to an eMail address you specify.
You can also choose to give them uCash (if you have uCash installed).

User's privacy selection is taken care of, eg. only those that allow their DOB to be displayed will be listed.

Credits to ChurchMedia for the original vBulletin 3.0 Hack.

Details
1 Product XML (4 settings, 14 phrases)
1 Cronscript


History
1.0.0
Initial Version

1.0.1

• Removed some debug code
• Fixed phrase missing linebreak
• Fixed userlist not being shown in body
• Added option to only list active users

This Hack is unsupported! All support requests except proven bugs will be IGNORED

FAQ

1. Q: This Hack does not work!
   A: Although it is possible that you have discovered a new bug which causes this Hack to not work, there is a good chance that there are other problems:
   • Did you select the correct Forum?
   • Did you enter the correct UserID?
   • Are you using the original phrases?
   • Do you have https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=96018 installed?
     This Hack has a bug which might cause failure.

[Bounce]

Originally Posted by aciurczak

You can go into the Scheduled Task Manager within the admincp. You will see the cron job for the Happy Birthday thread, and it is set at a certain hour. Hit edit, and change the hour to what you'd like. You can see if you did it right by seeing what the next scheduled time is for that cron job.

yes did that , set it at 00:05 yet the 2next" time is 18:05 :ermm:

thank you thou

[aciurczak]

It's a time zone thing. Change the hour to something else. See how it affects the next time the job is to be run. You should quickly see how many hours offset the setting is. Find the right hour to put in there, and you're good.

[Bounce]

Originally Posted by aciurczak

It's a time zone thing. Change the hour to something else. See how it affects the next time the job is to be run. You should quickly see how many hours offset the setting is. Find the right hour to put in there, and you're good.

ahhhh nice one, thanks mate, i'll try that now, its 01:18 here in UK

Set it at 19 05 , next is now 19-11-05 00:05

Thank you , only time will tell if it does it, hopefully there will be an active birthday tomorrow lol

[high]* Bounce clicks install as forgot to earlier [/high]

[Bluetiereign]

Installed. It now posts in the the Body. Option for only active members. Nice.

[divided_by_fear]

ok a question on this i installed this before i wentto bed woke up and there was 50 threads to the same person... how can i stop this i have it set up to run on the 23 hour but it was going and going lol.... like i said there was over 50 threads of the happy birthday message...

[SCRIPT3R]

i just re-up'd the most recent download and the Existing Install/Uninstall Code is 1.0.0 in the Product Manager... has the initial file not been upgraded to reflect 1.0.1 changes yet or does the install/uninstall code part not matter?

[Andreas]

The install code hasn't changed, so it is still 1.0.0.

[divided_by_fear]

any word on what would cause this to happen?

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by divided_by_fear

any word on what would cause this to happen?

You only set the hour, not the minute, so it would run every minute for the entire hour.

(isn't hour 23 a bit late ? their birthday is almost over at 11pm in the evening !).

[divided_by_fear]

lol well i wanted to make sure i was up to see if it did it again lol so what would be best to set it at like 1 this way its early in the morning?