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]

guys, this is a server issue. see if you host can set your server time correctly and you'll have a fix

[My Hattiesburg]

Originally Posted by voglermc

guys, this is a server issue. see if you host can set your server time correctly and you'll have a fix

I'm not an expert on this stuff but I think I have a pretty good grasp on things (and I could also be totally wrong). We manage our own server, which is located in MST and our site is on CST, therefore the server clock is one hour behind our site clock, i.e., when it's 2:00 here it's 1:00 there. Our site and the server both show the correct respective times, I just checked it.

Should the server clock and the site clock both be the same? I did change it once and it threw the site times off and posting permissions (you have to wait xxxx seconds before you may make another post), so I changed it back real quick and haven't touched it since because everything was working properly.

But it seems that if the mod is pulling the server time, then it would make the post one hour late instead of one hour early, i.e., when the server clock hits midnight it's already 1:00 AM here. Instead, it's posting it an hour early.

Or am I totally missing something?

[Rckcrwlr]

Originally Posted by My Hattiesburg

I'm not an expert on this stuff but I think I have a pretty good grasp on things (and I could also be totally wrong).
But it seems that if the mod is pulling the server time, then it would make the post one hour late instead of one hour early, i.e., when the server clock hits midnight it's already 1:00 AM here. Instead, it's posting it an hour early.

Or am I totally missing something?

My server is 2 miles away and the time is correct...and I still have the issue.

[voglermc]

I'm not an expert on this either but my site has always posted this on the right date and my server is in DC and I'm in NC. We both observe DST and am on EST.

[M.C.]

great hack but would be great to add option to post within ONE thread than create new one on every B-day... seems update 2010 no updates since

[sarangan]

Originally Posted by M.C.

great hack but would be great to add option to post within ONE thread than create new one on every B-day... seems update 2010 no updates since

Maybe the author is dead. I was also looking for an option that can post on random time. For my forum it posts every morning 6:30, where some users can guess that it automatic and not real person who posts..

[sectomy]

hi,

im running this mod on 3.8 and it worked fine till 1st February... right now it stopped working.
Any ideas why ? nothing changed on the Board.... but no more Birthday threads...

and yes ive running the 3.8 mod of this hack and now while it stopped working ive deinstalled it and installed this newer version, still the same... no threads.

any ideas ?
would be very nice.

greets
andi

[Jamey]

Mine shows this:

1 member is celebrating their birthday on 09-07-2013:

-[color=tyle=font-weight:bold]Moonie[/color] (born in 1954, Age: 59)


Happy Birthday!

[zwylove]

much question for everyone help.
1.how could to set up the post thread time on anytime that i want . is if it not necessary to put files run at cron folder to schedule ?

2.if member's birthday is just right on sunnday or saturday , i want to pre-days number to post the birthday thread on forum ? how can get it ?

3.I want to post multi-theard replace one theard for in the same birthday member ? how to set up it ?

4.is there a way to test this mod immediately,any time ? and is if could let me to special time to run it immediately ?

5. What's the difference of Phrases option between the the Message and Message(pl) ?

Many Thanks !

[sarangan]

This plugin sometimes makes a lot of duplicate threads. How to prevent from that problem?
Please fix.