Profile Enhancements - Birthday Thread and PM generator

<a href="http://www.AusPhotography.net.au" target="_blank">www.AusPhotography.net.au</a> Birthday Thread and PM generator

This product provides a simple way to create both an automatic Birthday greeting thread and forum member birthday PM.

Features:

1. Configurable greeting text with name, age (optional), and birthday
2. Excludable usergroups (eg. banned etc)
3. Creates a thread in selectable forum and sends a PM from selected user (admin or other)
4. Runs as a vBulletin scheduled task (vB cron job)
5. Honours forum members birthday profile settings
6. Only sends birthdays for members with recent forum activity (configurable)
7. Adjusts for forum members time-zone so the greeting will be on their birthday

Uses:

1. Creates a Database table to track birthday processed
2. One additional file vBulletin scheduled task (vB cron job)
3. Product installation file

Installation:

1. Copy ap_birthday.php to the forum ./includes/cron directory
2. Install the product file
3. Configure it via AdminCP/Settings/Options
4. Disable the vBulletin birthday emailer in AdminCP / Scheduled tasks
Done!

Enjoy! It will probably work on vB3.6+ as well.

Update 2013-04-12: Working with 4.2.0
Update 1.1.2 if zero active post use 'lastactivity' instead (bugfix)

Kym

[wampforum]

Originally Posted by snoopytas

Sure... you will need to modify the 2nd SQL select statement in ap_birthday.php.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/select.html

Im after allowing threads created for all users regardless of posts but i am unsure what I need to change to allow this. Any chance you could give this newbie a clue?!!

[AusPhotography]

Originally Posted by wampforum

Im after allowing threads created for all users regardless of posts but i am unsure what I need to change to allow this. Any chance you could give this newbie a clue?!!

Don't need to, just set the post count to zero

[GeorgeB85]

This posted a birthday thread for me today exactly at midnight, but even though in my profile it says the 26th is my birthday, it posted that my birthday was the 25th.

[AusPhotography]

Originally Posted by GeorgeB85

This posted a birthday thread for me today exactly at midnight, but even though in my profile it says the 26th is my birthday, it posted that my birthday was the 25th.

What timezone is your server?
What timezone is your user profile?
When it posted at midnight, was that in your timezone or the servers?

Did you change the job schedule at all? It should run hourly not on the exact hour.

Thanks

[sweetpotato]

It does not work for my site even I run AP Scheduled task mannually.
Please give me more instructions,
thanks

[AusPhotography]

What settings do you have ... posts etc?

[sweetpotato]

Thank you. It have worked like a charm now. But AP thread delayed after some hours them forum shows member birthday.

I think because off server time zone.

[cykelmyggen]

As I run a non-english forum I would like to know if it is possible to remove the "th" after the age and the english version of date (f.ex. 20th= 20 and "7th of August"=7. august) ?

[AusPhotography]

Originally Posted by cykelmyggen

As I run a non-english forum I would like to know if it is possible to remove the "th" after the age and the english version of date (f.ex. 20th= 20 and "7th of August"=7. august) ?

Feel free to edit the source to suit your needs. :up:

[cykelmyggen]

Originally Posted by snoopytas

Feel free to edit the source to suit your needs. :up:

Thanks for the generous offer, unfortunately I haven't got any coding skills ;-)