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.

[mktrilogy]

installed, will feedback later

[-=Leb=-]

thank you for your excellent haxs

[goddess_dix]

Thank you for this hack-it works beautifully for us.

I do have a feature request for a future version-the ability to set so each birthday member can get their own thread. That would work better for us, where we traditionally made a new thread for each person...

Regardless, thanks for this (and all) your mods. I use several of yours.

[Stryker412]

Is there a way you can set it so if you have a few people who are auto generated as the author do not author their own birthday thread.

[powerful_rogue]

Originally Posted by goddess_dix

Thank you for this hack-it works beautifully for us.

I do have a feature request for a future version-the ability to set so each birthday member can get their own thread. That would work better for us, where we traditionally made a new thread for each person...

Regardless, thanks for this (and all) your mods. I use several of yours.

This would be a fantastic way of doing it. Would make it appear that little bit more personal.

[ZeroHour]

Originally Posted by goddess_dix

Thank you for this hack-it works beautifully for us.

I do have a feature request for a future version-the ability to set so each birthday member can get their own thread. That would work better for us, where we traditionally made a new thread for each person...

Regardless, thanks for this (and all) your mods. I use several of yours.

+1 for that

[Mum]

How can i find out what my forumtime is? I have it set to my time zone of course, and want to see what time it would show the thread - it may not work for us as we're +12 - so might post at like lunch time, by which time someone would have already manually done it.

[Mum]

Anyone?

[goddess_dix]

mum, i would just try it and see what i got. you can always edit an poorly timed post or two, or you could set it to test by posting in a private forum first and checking the time.