Miscellaneous Hacks - Cyb - 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 choosen 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.

Note:
-This executes 1 very simple query on forumhome.

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

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

Versions:
v1.0 - Aug 26. 2007.
-Initial release
v1.1 - Aug 27. 2007.
-New: Option to exclude members with post count lower than X
-Fixed bug where several threads are posted for the same birthday
-Shortcut to "Age" phrase added to the list on settings page
v1.2 - Aug 28. 2007.
-Date format follows your forum acp settings
-New: Option to exclude members joined in last X days
-Another fix for duplicate birthday threads on some forums
v1.3 - Aug 31. 2007.
-Option to synchronize hack with forum time to avoid situations where birthday thread is created too early or too late
v1.4 - May 03. 2008.
-Compatible with vBulletin 3.7
-Minor bugs fixed

Mark as INSTALLED to get support and updates.

[rapidphim]

what can I do to recreate the bd thread for any member that had bd shown before I installed this hack?

[goddess_dix]

Originally Posted by massizero

Hi,
installed your mod and enabled, but no thread is created even if there have been birthdays in the past 2 days... What could it be the reason?

possibly they are past the active user cutoff date? check your mod settings in the admincp.

Originally Posted by rapidphim

what can I do to recreate the bd thread for any member that had bd shown before I installed this hack?

manually do it?

[massizero]

Originally Posted by goddess_dix

possibly they are past the active user cutoff date? check your mod settings in the admincp.

no.. I've disabled the active members option.. so evary birthday should be listed..
I'm noticing that the cyb_birthdaythread template doesn't exist. SHouldn't it automatically created from the plugin? Why do you think it is not created?
Any suggestion how can I solve this problem? may be creating the template manually?

thanks

[carrlos]

My server time is 3 hours behind forum time. So I set the time to +3. The thread was created after midnight forum time (the 27th, which was great) but in the thread it said that the birthday was one day earlier, the 26th (the date of the server). The user's birthday is actually the 27th. Does this mean I'm forced to use server time/date in order to avoid all birthday threads posting a date that is one day earlier??

[Charlie98902]

I have a small issue and it may be because of one of the other mods used? I use HTML Markup on all my usergroups except, banned, awaiting & guests. My reg users use this :

<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: Black;">

</span>

. It shows up as the example but the whole thing is a link and the words username here is being shown on the post. Once I add the " " around the word black all is well but can get tiring to edit in time.

[goddess_dix]

Originally Posted by Charlie98902

I have a small issue and it may be because of one of the other mods used? I use HTML Markup on all my usergroups except, banned, awaiting & guests. My reg users use this :

<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: Black;">

</span>

. It shows up as the example but the whole thing is a link and the words username here is being shown on the post. Once I add the " " around the word black all is well but can get tiring to edit in time.

charlie-first of all, you'll need two closing span tags for your markup instead of one. i assume you do have it set up that way for your markup?

but rather than do this in two spans, i'd do one span, set it as a style, and add it to your css. so something like this -

<span class="reguser"></span>

and in the additional css for your style in the admincp -

.reguser {color:#000000; font-weight:bold;}

perhaps that will help?

[Charlie98902]

I'll look into this in a bit. Thanks.

[Brandon Sheley]

thanks, I might add this to my forum

[massizero]

goddess_dix can you please see my post 23?
thanks

[goddess_dix]

Originally Posted by massizero

goddess_dix can you please see my post 23?
thanks

sorry...don't have anything else to offer if you're certian you're config is correct in there. i don't know what templates this installs; i didn't see the one you mentioned in my setup, but didn't look extensively, either. kinda swamped at the momemnt...mine's working just fine. if it were me, i might try uninstalling and reinstalling, but i have no idea if it will help you or not...