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

[AusPhotography]

Originally Posted by smirkley

Just noticed this morning that since after I set for "number of posts=0", that this will now ignore "days active=60" and give birthdays to everyone even inactive.



edit to add, I think that the description in the acp settings for this confused me. I was thinking that the mod will only post for members active, with x number of posts as a minimum.

I think now it says that active, means number of posts exclusively, and if you set it to 0, all members now qualify even if they havent logged on in years.

You are correct. It's post activity based (in forums that have post count enabled).
We are attempting to limit greeting to people who have posted something in the last X days.

Posts = 0 does mean everyone.

So in that case I'll change it to apply the last activity date.

[smirkley]

Tried to 'like', but vborg wont let me.

Still 'like'.

[smirkley]

Using the latest update...

Had a birthday notice today for a member that hasnt been online active since 2004.

Have minimum posts set to 0.

[AusPhotography]

Originally Posted by smirkley

Using the latest update...
Had a birthday notice today for a member that hasn't been online active since 2004.
Have minimum posts set to 0.

I can't reproduce that.

Can you tell me the value of the field 'lastactivity' on that users record?
(Use phpmyadmin for that on cPanel)
or a query like

select lastactivity from user where userid=XXX

in the AdminCP -- you may need to change user to TABLE_PREFIXuser and XXX is the userid of the account.

Also, make sure you uploaded "ap_birthday.php" to the correct folder (i.e. the cron folder) and overwrote the old version.

[smirkley]

I did upload the file to the correct folders, checked to be sure.

And just had a member that hasnt logged on given a birthday thread even though not logged into since 2005 someodd.

I will do the cpanel query tomorrow,..its late atm.

[smirkley]

"ap_birthday.php" should have "Version: 1.1.1 2013-04-12" on line 5.

I verified this this morning as correct as well as the file location.

But then I noticed the 1.1.2, so I installed that version.

[stevieb]

is this confirmed as working, or dead then?

Looking to install in vB 4.2.0

Thanks

[AusPhotography]

Working fine and supported. Works on all 4.2 versions.

[stevieb]

Originally Posted by ricktas

Working fine and supported. Works on all 4.2 versions.

Installed - lets see if tomorrow birthdays work right

Thanks again, will update you soon. (vB 4.2.0)

[My Hattiesburg]

I just installed it on a 4.2.1 board and so far it works fine.