Member's Age in Postbit & Getinfo Profile (automatically calculated from birthday)

Member's Age in Postbit & Getinfo Profile - by Dr. Erwin Loh
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I requested this a while back. Since no one has released a hack like this, I worked out how to do it.

NOTE: This hack automatically shows the age of the person calculated from the birthday entered (it's not a separate input). If there is no birthdate or birthyear, the age doesn't show up automatically.

1) Postbit hack
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This hack basically places the member's age underneath his join date (or wherever you want) in the postbit, like this:


Registered: July 2000
Age: 18
Location: USA
Posts: 102


If the member has not entered his birth-year, then the age will NOT show up at all, like this:


Registered: July 2000
Location: USA
Posts: 102


This hack requires 1 file edit (functions.php), and 1 template edit (postbit).

2) Getinfo Profile hack
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This adds the member's age in their profile.

I've added this to the installation text file. It's a matter of editing members.php and the getinfo template.

Installation text file here:

[Buczilla]

Thanks a lot, great hack!

[insanctus]

~ clicks install..... I have plans for this

[FWF]

installs

[Oblivion Knight]

Erwin, is there any way to make $age = "Age: $userage<br>"; template controlled without the queries shooting up?

I did it like this:

// Age in postbit - Erwin
        $bday = explode("-",$post[birthday]);
        if (date("Y")>$bday[0] and $bday[0]>1901 && $bday[0]!='0000') {
            $userage= date("Y") - ($bday[0]+1); 
            if (date("m")>$bday[1] OR (date("m")==$bday[1] AND $bday[2]<=date("d"))) {
                $userage=$userage+1; 
				} 
           eval("\$age = \"".gettemplate("age")."\";");
		}
// Age in postbit

But it added many many more queries on top of the usual (obviously, it requires that template everytime a birthday is shown).. I looked for a $templatesused variable, but there isn't one in admin/functions.php.. I'm still learning how to do these basic things, sorry!

Many thanks,
Oblivion Knight.

[Erwin]

Add

age

to the $templatesused="

section in showthread.php under the POSTBIT section.

[Oblivion Knight]

Today at 02:39 PM Erwin said this in Post #55
Add

age

to the $templatesused="

section in showthread.php under the POSTBIT section.

Do I keep my code AND follow your step?
I tried this and the queries still stay much higher than they were before.

It doesn't help that I'm not feeling well at the moment I guess.. :sleep:

[Erwin]

There are 2 templatesused="

in showthread.php

Put that template "age" in both of them and see if it helps. Yes, you need to use your code for templates to be used. By caching the template, you should not incur any queries at all. It can be done.

[Oblivion Knight]

Well I'll be.. I could have sworn I tried that.
Until the new template is added, the queries stay higher than they should be (probably something I forgot last time). Then once it's added, the queries return to normal.

[Erwin]

Glad to know it works, and it does not add any queries.

[Red Blaze]

Added this hack a while back. Works great and like someone said above, I too have plans for this. ^^;;