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

[My Hattiesburg]

I'm getting some weird post times of greetings. I had one post at 11:59 PM then the exact same one again at 12:01 AM. Just recently I had one post at 11:01 PM, the day before the birthday. All the others have worked right, after midnight the day of the birthday.

Any thoughts?

[CAG CheechDogg]

Originally Posted by My Hattiesburg

I'm getting some weird post times of greetings. I had one post at 11:59 PM then the exact same one again at 12:01 AM. Just recently I had one post at 11:01 PM, the day before the birthday. All the others have worked right, after midnight the day of the birthday.

Any thoughts?

Could be the time zone they have set up in their settings. Not sure though.

[My Hattiesburg]

I'm still having a problem with this mod creating threads on the wrong day and now getting the date wrong. Last night at precisely 11:00 PM it created a birthday thread for one member, and said her birthday was on 11-26, even though her profile has it as 11-27. The What's Going On block listed her birthday correctly as did the Calendar.

[andyv72]

Update pls

[CAG CheechDogg]

I actually had a thread being created on the wrong day too just last week and it wasn't that person's birthday. I checked on the time zone they had on their profile and all was fine there. ...Pretty weird stuff, never had it do this before.

[My Hattiesburg]

It still wants to create a thread at 11:00 PM of the day before the birthday, and giving out the wrong date. It's confusing our members who read the thread the next day and think they're a day late in giving out birthday wishes.

Anybody got a clue what might be causing this or how I might go about changing some settings to get it to behave properly?

[CoZmicShReddeR]

Originally Posted by My Hattiesburg

It still wants to create a thread at 11:00 PM of the day before the birthday, and giving out the wrong date. It's confusing our members who read the thread the next day and think they're a day late in giving out birthday wishes.

Anybody got a clue what might be causing this or how I might go about changing some settings to get it to behave properly?

I am not sure about the mod but I am sure if your server has the wrong date and time it will cause your website to show the wrong date and time!

Also make sure you have the correct time zone set for your forums
SETTINGS, Date and Time Options

There is also a setting for Daylights savings time...

[My Hattiesburg]

Originally Posted by CoZmicShReddeR

I am not sure about the mod but I am sure if your server has the wrong date and time it will cause your website to show the wrong date and time!

Also make sure you have the correct time zone set for your forums
SETTINGS, Date and Time Options

There is also a setting for Daylights savings time...

I thought about that, but our site is showing the correct time. The server, though, is on MST and we're on CST but if that was a factor then the thread would be started an hour late, not an hour early.

But I tested this out before enabling site-wide and it worked properly then. It also worked properly the first few times that it created a thread, then it wonked out. Also, I wouldn't mind even if it did post a thread an hour early - if it would insert the correct date, but it seems that it's inserting the date of the thread creation instead of pulling the date from the user's profile. Or maybe it's pulling the date from the profile and then subtracting 1, I don't know.

This may have started after the DST change, I'm not sure, but since all the dates on our site automatically changed over properly when it happened, it still puzzles me. I suppose it's also possible that it's something that I installed after installing this mod but I don't have a clue what it might be since this is the only thing I'm having a problem with.

[My Hattiesburg]

Anybody have any suggestions as to what I can do to get this mod to insert the correct date? I really like it but it makes us look foolish by proclaiming that someone's birthday is a day earlier than the actual date.

[Rckcrwlr]

Originally Posted by My Hattiesburg

It also worked properly the first few times that it created a thread, then it wonked out. Also, I wouldn't mind even if it did post a thread an hour early - if it would insert the correct date, but it seems that it's inserting the date of the thread creation instead of pulling the date from the user's profile. Or maybe it's pulling the date from the profile and then subtracting 1, I don't know.

Mine started doing this, again. I thought it was fixed.