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:

[Erwin]

Also, this doesn't add any additional queries to your forums.

[Deska]

Nice hack man, thank's...

[Schorsch]

Thank you Erwin!!

useful hack and very easy installation

cu
Schorsch

[Erwin]

I updated the code - there was a bug in the original installation file - please clear your cache and view the new code now.

[Vile]

Awesome hack. Installed it, works like a charm

[Floris]

Installed, works very nice. So easy to add. And I am happy it doesn't add another query.

[Unknown553]

Awesome hack man. *installed*

[[D]Vincent]

I wouldn't say it's awesome, I don't see what's so great about displaying the user's age, of course I'm admin of a FF site so that wouldn't interest me. Nice job though.

[Vile]

Originally posted by [D]Vincent
I wouldn't say it's awesome, I don't see what's so great about displaying the user's age, of course I'm admin of a FF site so that wouldn't interest me. Nice job though.

Good point, but in that case, couldn't you say the same thing about a users post count, location, etc?

[Erwin]

Okay, I've updated the hack again, this time for the LAST time. I had to modify the hack because certain members had their ages off by 1 year.

Thanks to Boofo, who PMed me with a suggestion - I have incorporated his suggestion into my hack, and this has fixed up the age problem for certain members.

The hack should be working 100% now.

To upgrade, just download the text installation file, and replace the code in the functions.php with the new code.

[Erwin]

I had to fix 2 small bugs to do with birthdates with my update - The bug concerns members' birthdays which fall before 1970. I was wondering why there was a 54 year old on my site who insisted he was 53. According to Boofo, someone posted a fix on vb.com, and he PMed it to me. I've fixed this.

[Birdie501]

can you tell us which dates causes this errors?

[Erwin]

Originally posted by Birdie501
can you tell us which dates causes this errors?

I suspected it was certain months, but it appeared to be fairly random - I tried to find a pattern with my members, but couldn't. Whatever date they had trouble with, when I applied it to my profile, it still worked for me with my old code, but not for them.

Anyway, the latest code in my hack works with no problems at all - whatever it is, the new code fixed it.

So just use the latest installation text file, and there should be no more problems.

[Sketch]

I can see the older folks on my board going crazy on me if I installed this. It's a great idea though.

Aaron