Miscellaneous Hacks - VSa - Auto Birthday Greeter

Info:
This hack automatically creates a birthday thread in the forum you select. Only members that allow their date of birth to be displayed will be listed, and age will be shown only for those who has chosen that. Members are shown in colors defined in usergroup settings. You can choose to exclude inactive members. Several users can be set as greeters (used randomly when posting). Thread will be created first time when someone loads forumhome after midnight.


Notes:
-This executes 1 very simple query on forumhome/in target forum.
-mktime() error? Check out this post.


Installation:
-Import XML file (as product) through AdminCP: Plugin System > Manage Products > [Add/Import Product]


To set options:
Go to: vBulletin Options > VSa - Auto Birthday Greeter


Versions:
v1.0 - Aug 26. 2007.
-Initial release
v1.4 - May 03. 2008.
-Latest vb 3.x version
v2.0 - Feb 17 2010.
-Updated for vB 4
-Added option to disable smilies
v2.0.1 - Feb 28 2010.
-New: Proper Time is now automatically detected
-Fixed: Several compatibility issues
v2.0.2 - Feb 28 2010.
-Fixed: Bug with multiple threads created
v2.0.3 - Mar 02 2010.
-Fixed mktime errors
v2.0.4 - Sep 06 2010.
-Fixed: Another bug with multiple threads created
-Fixed: Minor bugs
v2.0.5 - Sep 16 2010.
-Fixed: Multiple threads
v2.0.6 - Sep 23 2010.
-Fixed: Wrong thread creation time

[voglermc]

reinstalled valter's version

[kras]

Originally Posted by voglermc

Kras, I'm getting this error since installing your version


Warning: DateTime::modify() [datetime.modify]: Failed to parse time string (hour) at position 0 (h): The timezone could not be found in the database in [path]/includes/class_bootstrap.php(517) : eval()'d code on line 91

There was a typo in the code that affected negative time offsets. Now it should work for you. The code is available at the previous post.

[BadgerDog]

Originally Posted by kras

There was a typo in the code that affected negative time offsets. Now it should work for you. The code is available at the previous post.

Testing updated code ... will advise ...

Thanks for trying to fix this ...

Regards,
Badger

[voglermc]

Please remove the link in the quote above to my site. Thanks for the update!

[BadgerDog]

Originally Posted by voglermc

Please remove the link in the quote above to my site. Thanks for the update!

You mean there's a link in the code you re-wrote to your site that needs to be removed?

...or, do you mean the link to your original post in the "quote" above?

I'm not much of a coder, so I downloaded your replacement file and installed it, which went fine, so is there something else I need to do while I wait to see if it works?

Regards,
Badger

[voglermc]

Speaking to Kras

[BadgerDog]

Originally Posted by voglermc

Speaking to Kras

Roger that ... :up:

Regards,
Badger

[kras]

Originally Posted by voglermc

Please remove the link in the quote above to my site. Thanks for the update!

Done

Originally Posted by BadgerDog

You mean there's a link in the code you re-wrote to your site that needs to be removed?

...or, do you mean the link to your original post in the "quote" above?

I'm not much of a coder, so I downloaded your replacement file and installed it, which went fine, so is there something else I need to do while I wait to see if it works?

Regards,
Badger

You could create a new user in your ACP with todays date as birth date. Then you would know at once if it works (when your main forum page loads).

[BadgerDog]

Originally Posted by kras

Done



You could create a new user in your ACP with todays date as birth date. Then you would know at once if it works (when your main forum page loads).

Tested on 4.04 and confirmed that this patched version by kras seems to work fine ... :up:

Thank you kras ... appreciate you addressing the problem ...

Regards,
Badger

[GeorgeB85]

I thought this was fixed? I had it post a birthday yesterday that was meant for today??