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Automatic Birthday Thread · **Released**: 03-17-2004

This hack is inspired by the Birthday Hack for vB2 by Logician. It will automatically create a Happy Birthday thread in a specified forum, listing the people with birthdays for that day. Then other members can post their happy birthday wishes in the thread.

I had the original hack installed on my VB2 board and when I upgraded to VB3 my members missed it. Luckily, it's really easy to implement.

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Files to modify: /includes/cron/birthday.php
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Instructions are in the attached text file. The mod should take about 5 minutes.

Be sure to change the variables that say // CHANGE ME

You can customize the message in the $birthday_greeting_thread variable. You could also ad IMG tags with an image of some kind, like in my screenshot.

Note that you MUST turn on BB CODE in you birthday forum in order for this to work properly.
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Enjoy (and thanks for the inspiration, Logician!)
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New in Version 2.0:

Bug fixes:
> More accurate age calculation. Sometimes it was a year off.
> The correct thread shows up in the last thread post on the forum home page.
> HTML is not required to be turned on in the birthday forum.
> Most of the code is completely rewritten to vB3 standards.

New features:
> Improved look
> Birthday line now says: (User) was born on (date), (AGE: xx)
> If the year is not given, it says "Not telling!

" for age.
> The admin is emailed a list of the birthdays with links to their profiles and a link to the happy birthday thread.
> If you use the uShop/uCash hack, you can give birthday points to the users

Upgrading:

Since the code has changed so drastically, I suggest starting with a fresh copy of birthday.php and following the instructions for a new install.

Vile · #2 03-17-2004, 11:27 PM

Very cool idea

coldpride · #3 03-17-2004, 11:43 PM

Yes almost like the old vb2 hack

Very very good

Vb-Hispano · #4 03-18-2004, 12:01 AM

no working

Happy Birthday Email

Parse error: parse error in /home/httpd/vhosts/dominio.com/httpdocs/foros/includes/cron/birthday.php on line 59

All Done

in line 59 is this $birthday_greeting_thread = <<< EOF

total php birthday

Code:

<?php
/*======================================================================*\
|| #################################################################### ||
|| # vBulletin 3.0.0 Release Candidate 4 - Licence Number 81xxxxxx
|| # ---------------------------------------------------------------- # ||
|| # Copyright ?2000?2004 Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd. All Rights Reserved. ||
|| # This file may not be redistributed in whole or significant part. # ||
|| # ---------------- VBULLETIN IS NOT FREE SOFTWARE ---------------- # ||
|| # http://www.vbulletin.com | http://www.vbulletin.com/license.html # ||
|| #################################################################### ||
\*======================================================================*/

error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE);

if ($DB_site == NULL)
{
	exit;
}

$today = date('m-d', TIMENOW);

$ids = '0';
foreach($usergroupcache AS $usergroupid => $usergroup)
{
	if ($usergroup['genericoptions'] & SHOWBIRTHDAY)
	{
		$ids .= ",$usergroupid";
	}
}

$birthdays = $DB_site->query(" 
    SELECT username, email, languageid, birthday, userid 
    FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "user 
    WHERE birthday LIKE '$today-%' AND 
    (options & $_USEROPTIONS[adminemail]) AND 
    usergroupid IN ($ids) 
"); 

vbmail_start();

while ($userinfo = $DB_site->fetch_array($birthdays))
{
	$username = unhtmlspecialchars($userinfo['username']);
	eval(fetch_email_phrases('birthday', $userinfo['languageid']));
	vbmail($userinfo['email'], $subject, $message);
	$emails .= iif($emails, ', ');
	$emails .= $userinfo['username'];
	$bday_people .= "<a href=\"member.php?u=".$userinfo['userid']."\">".$username."</a>, born ".$userinfo['birthday']."\n";
}

vbmail_end();

if ($emails)
{
	log_cron_action('Birthday Email sent to: ' . $emails, $nextitem);

	// Create Birthday Thread Hack 

$birthday_greeting_thread = <<< EOF 
Felicidades amigos, 

que tengais un gran dia de cumplea?os, que os regalen muchas cosas y 
	que sea el dia mas feliz de vuestra vida! 

	

Que os lo paseis bien y recordar que este foro esta con vosotros...

$bday_people 
EOF; 

$greeter=11290; //Your User ID 
$greeter_name="Administrador"; //Your User Name 
$greetings_forum=148; //enter the forum id that you want the thread to go into 
$todays_date11= date("F j, Y", mktime (date("H")+$timeset, date("i"), date("s"), date("m"), date("d"), date("Y"))); 
$title3= "Feliz Cumplea?os a Todos los miembros que cumplen a?os el "; 
$title3.=$todays_date11; 
$DB_site->query("INSERT INTO thread (threadid,title,lastpost,forumid,open,replycount,postusername,postuserid,lastpos  ter,dateline,iconid,visible,attach) VALUES (NULL,'".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($title3))."','".time()."','$greetings_forum','1','0','".addslashes($greeter_name)."','$greeter','".addslashes($greeter_name)."','".time()."','0','1','0')"); 
$log_threadid=$DB_site->insert_id(); 
// Creating Post 
$DB_site->query("INSERT INTO post (postid,threadid,title,username,userid,dateline,pagetext,allowsmilie,showsignatu  re,ipaddress,iconid,visible) VALUES (NULL,'$log_threadid','".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($title3))."','".addslashes($greeter_name)."','$greeter','".time()."','".addslashes($birthday_greeting_thread)."','1','0','127.0.0.1','0','1')"); 
// End Create Birthday Thread Hack 


	}

/*======================================================================*\
|| ####################################################################
|| # Downloaded: 05:43, Sun Feb 8th 2004
|| # CVS: $RCSfile: birthday.php,v $ - $Revision: 1.24 $
|| ####################################################################
\*======================================================================*/
?>

Osterling · #5 03-18-2004, 12:06 AM

niiiiiiiiiiice hack.. i will def. install this sometime this week and for Vb-Hispano, this hack is for v3, your profile says you use v2

Vb-Hispano · #6 03-18-2004, 12:08 AM

I use v 3.0

Rushty · #7 03-18-2004, 06:58 AM

Is it possible to specify only specific users groups that it selects birthdays from, and if not any possibility of the option in a future version?

DaveLogic · #8 03-18-2004, 10:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vb-Hispano

no working

Happy Birthday Email

Parse error: parse error in /home/httpd/vhosts/dominio.com/httpdocs/foros/includes/cron/birthday.php on line 59

All Done

in line 59 is this $birthday_greeting_thread = <<< EOF

total php birthday

Code:

<?php
/*======================================================================*\
|| #################################################################### ||
|| # vBulletin 3.0.0 Release Candidate 4 - Licence Number 81xxxxxx
|| # ---------------------------------------------------------------- # ||
|| # Copyright ?2000?2004 Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd. All Rights Reserved. ||
|| # This file may not be redistributed in whole or significant part. # ||
|| # ---------------- VBULLETIN IS NOT FREE SOFTWARE ---------------- # ||
|| # http://www.vbulletin.com | http://www.vbulletin.com/license.html # ||
|| #################################################################### ||
\*======================================================================*/

error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE);

if ($DB_site == NULL)
{
	exit;
}

$today = date('m-d', TIMENOW);

$ids = '0';
foreach($usergroupcache AS $usergroupid => $usergroup)
{
	if ($usergroup['genericoptions'] & SHOWBIRTHDAY)
	{
		$ids .= ",$usergroupid";
	}
}

$birthdays = $DB_site->query(" 
    SELECT username, email, languageid, birthday, userid 
    FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "user 
    WHERE birthday LIKE '$today-%' AND 
    (options & $_USEROPTIONS[adminemail]) AND 
    usergroupid IN ($ids) 
"); 

vbmail_start();

while ($userinfo = $DB_site->fetch_array($birthdays))
{
	$username = unhtmlspecialchars($userinfo['username']);
	eval(fetch_email_phrases('birthday', $userinfo['languageid']));
	vbmail($userinfo['email'], $subject, $message);
	$emails .= iif($emails, ', ');
	$emails .= $userinfo['username'];
	$bday_people .= "<a href=\"member.php?u=".$userinfo['userid']."\">".$username."</a>, born ".$userinfo['birthday']."\n";
}

vbmail_end();

if ($emails)
{
	log_cron_action('Birthday Email sent to: ' . $emails, $nextitem);

	// Create Birthday Thread Hack 

$birthday_greeting_thread = <<< EOF 
Felicidades amigos, 

que tengais un gran dia de cumplea?os, que os regalen muchas cosas y 
	que sea el dia mas feliz de vuestra vida! 

	

Que os lo paseis bien y recordar que este foro esta con vosotros...

$bday_people 
EOF; 

$greeter=11290; //Your User ID 
$greeter_name="Administrador"; //Your User Name 
$greetings_forum=148; //enter the forum id that you want the thread to go into 
$todays_date11= date("F j, Y", mktime (date("H")+$timeset, date("i"), date("s"), date("m"), date("d"), date("Y"))); 
$title3= "Feliz Cumplea?os a Todos los miembros que cumplen a?os el "; 
$title3.=$todays_date11; 
$DB_site->query("INSERT INTO thread (threadid,title,lastpost,forumid,open,replycount,postusername,postuserid,lastpos  ter,dateline,iconid,visible,attach) VALUES (NULL,'".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($title3))."','".time()."','$greetings_forum','1','0','".addslashes($greeter_name)."','$greeter','".addslashes($greeter_name)."','".time()."','0','1','0')"); 
$log_threadid=$DB_site->insert_id(); 
// Creating Post 
$DB_site->query("INSERT INTO post (postid,threadid,title,username,userid,dateline,pagetext,allowsmilie,showsignatu  re,ipaddress,iconid,visible) VALUES (NULL,'$log_threadid','".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($title3))."','".addslashes($greeter_name)."','$greeter','".time()."','".addslashes($birthday_greeting_thread)."','1','0','127.0.0.1','0','1')"); 
// End Create Birthday Thread Hack 


	}

/*======================================================================*\
|| ####################################################################
|| # Downloaded: 05:43, Sun Feb 8th 2004
|| # CVS: $RCSfile: birthday.php,v $ - $Revision: 1.24 $
|| ####################################################################
\*======================================================================*/
?>

I get the same error as well...Forced to uninstall...

alkatraz · #9 03-18-2004, 11:36 AM

Cool hack, thx for the vb3 update

gmarik · #10 03-18-2004, 01:43 PM

This is cool. Could you add a .txt file as well?

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