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 \\=^))

[dano]

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[Aaron1]

Great Hack!

But is it also possible that the automatic birthday greeting thread adds a birthday greet Post into (a specified) Birthday thread? I think a new Birthday Greet Thread each day is a bit too much though.

Thanks in advance for helping!

[Logician]

08-18-03 at 12:02 AM dano said this in Post #159
Strange, I installed this and for some reason I can not post polls anymore on the site. I have not installed any other hacks or anything and the polls worked fine before. The hack works great, but I need my polls back, any ideas?

I'm safe to say that this can not be related to this hack. It has nothing to do with polls of vb, nor changes any poll related codes.

[buro9]

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. (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 \\=^))

I've noticed that the hack stopped working on my site a little while ago.

The last timetick was about two months ago.

I've examined the code and the problem appears to be in the seeding of rand.

After a certain version of PHP this is no longer needed... and doing so seems to make PHP only return the maximum from rand.

So... where rand should have been producing a number between 1 and 6 (in my case)... it only ever produced 6... but you need a value of 1 to run Logicians code.

The solution... is merely to remove the make_seed function and the seeding of srand from the beginning of the hack.

BUT... only do this if you're affected by it.

[Logician]

Originally Posted by buro9

I've noticed that the hack stopped working on my site a little while ago.

The last timetick was about two months ago.

I've examined the code and the problem appears to be in the seeding of rand.

After a certain version of PHP this is no longer needed... and doing so seems to make PHP only return the maximum from rand.

So... where rand should have been producing a number between 1 and 6 (in my case)... it only ever produced 6... but you need a value of 1 to run Logicians code.

The solution... is merely to remove the make_seed function and the seeding of srand from the beginning of the hack.

BUT... only do this if you're affected by it.

thanks for letting us know and it will be also helpful if you mention your PHP version

[psico]

Hi.

I have a serious problem with this hack, since 1/1/04 my users receive mails and PM's greetings without stopping. The hack is not sending or creating new threads since 31/12, just looping the mails and PMs for the 1/1 birthdays.
Please anyone can help me?

Sorry for my english.

Psico.

[CaptChill]

I installed the hack but I receive the following email with SQL Error. I'm sure it is something simple but I can't seem to find it. Thanks

Invalid SQL: SELECT userid, username, birthday, email, receivepm FROM user WHERE birthday LIKE '%-01-16' AND usergroupid!='3'
mysql error: Unknown column 'receivepm' in 'field list'

I have VB Version 3 rc 2

[Logician]

Originally Posted by CaptChill

mysql error: Unknown column 'receivepm' in 'field list'

I have VB Version 3 rc 2

uhh this hack is NOT for VB3! :speechless: Please uninstall ASAP!

Besides you dont need it so badly, because VB3 already have a birthday greeting mailing as a default feature. You can find it under CRON management section..

[CaptChill]

OOPS...Thanks, Logician

[glo]

Hi Logician,

I am testing this on my laptop test server, and after running the SQL command in part 1, you say i should get "SQL ... Run Successfully!" but i didnt any message at all?

Should i continue or is there a problem.

Im using it in vB2.3.0

Thanks