Profile Enhancements - Birthday Thread and PM generator

<a href="http://www.AusPhotography.net.au" target="_blank">www.AusPhotography.net.au</a> Birthday Thread and PM generator

This product provides a simple way to create both an automatic Birthday greeting thread and forum member birthday PM.

Features:

1. Configurable greeting text with name, age (optional), and birthday
2. Excludable usergroups (eg. banned etc)
3. Creates a thread in selectable forum and sends a PM from selected user (admin or other)
4. Runs as a vBulletin scheduled task (vB cron job)
5. Honours forum members birthday profile settings
6. Only sends birthdays for members with recent forum activity (configurable)
7. Adjusts for forum members time-zone so the greeting will be on their birthday

Uses:

1. Creates a Database table to track birthday processed
2. One additional file vBulletin scheduled task (vB cron job)
3. Product installation file

Installation:

1. Copy ap_birthday.php to the forum ./includes/cron directory
2. Install the product file
3. Configure it via AdminCP/Settings/Options
4. Disable the vBulletin birthday emailer in AdminCP / Scheduled tasks
Done!

Enjoy! It will probably work on vB3.6+ as well.

Update 2013-04-12: Working with 4.2.0
Update 1.1.2 if zero active post use 'lastactivity' instead (bugfix)

Kym

[ahobilam]

Installed but yet to check.
I have some idea for another mod basing on this mod, the author can try if possible and interested.
That is:
Fetching the events stored in the calendar and posting new thread in a forum for that to remind users about that event in advance say one week or one day.
Mostly people will search on current topics and the forums will get lot of hits to view the discussions going on about the current topic.

[stevieb]

Originally Posted by ricktas

Working fine and supported. Works on all 4.2 versions.

Originally Posted by stevieb

Installed - lets see if tomorrow birthdays work right

Thanks again, will update you soon. (vB 4.2.0)

Yep works sound on 4.2.0 although the pm, email & thread gets posted in bold font and the URL sent to pm doesn't hyperlink - it's in plain text.

Can we use HTML in the message text? Any ideas how to sort above issues please?

[stevieb]

Originally Posted by ahobilam

Fetching the events stored in the calendar and posting new thread in a forum for that to remind users about that event in advance say one week or one day.
Mostly people will search on current topics and the forums will get lot of hits to view the discussions going on about the current topic.

Great idea

[AusPhotography]

Originally Posted by stevieb

Yep works sound on 4.2.0 although the pm, email & thread gets posted in bold font and the URL sent to pm doesn't hyperlink - it's in plain text.

The URL in the PM should hyperlink as it's wrapped in URL bbcode. What did you change the standard text to?

Can we use HTML in the message text? Any ideas how to sort above issues please?

No.

[CoZmicShReddeR]

I want it to show Birthdays no matter what how do I set it to always show Birthdays? I do not want it based on posts or active users...

[AusPhotography]

Originally Posted by CoZmicShReddeR

I want it to show Birthdays no matter what how do I set it to always show Birthdays? I do not want it based on posts or active users...

Set the Days Active and Posts in Days to zero.

[scottct1]

I keep setting both to 0 but when I save it, it sets Days Active to 1.

[AusPhotography]

Originally Posted by scottct1

I keep setting both to 0 but when I save it, it sets Days Active to 1.

I'll investigate that

[Jamey]

Thanks!

[Jamey]

How can I set it so I don't have to approve these new threads?