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Automatic Greeting Email/PM/Threads for Member Birthdays
Version: 1.00, by Logician Logician is offline
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Released: 06-09-2002 Last Update: Never Installs: 205
 
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This hack will automatically greet the birthdays of your board members by sending them:
  • Private Messages
  • Emails
  • Both
  • or by creating a birthday celebration thread in a specific forum.
Features:
* Does NOT require cron jobs so everybody can use it regardless of their server settings/rights.
* You can send PMs, emails (or both) or you can choose to send them PM if they can receive PM or else send email.
* The Hack can create special greeting threads for birthdays. (optional)
* Some usergroups (like banned users) can be excluded from automatic greetings.
* Admin can choose to receive a daily report via Email or PM about the greeted birthdays. (optional)
* Compatible with ALL vbulletin versions I know.
* Carefully coded to not to increase your SQL load and its quite performance-friendly. (More info about performance issues)
* New Added Feature: To greet only members who have more than X messages or who have visited your board in the last X days, see here
* New Added Feature: You can change his style in the day user has his birthday. Check here)
* New Added Feature: You can play Happy Birthday Song to your members in their birthdays. Check here

The hack is beta tested by many users for a long time before the release and proven to be quite stable. (BTW. thx to all beta testers especially to Dark_Wizard, Boofo, DslTeam, C-Pr0mpt for returning feedback).

WARNING: I strongly suggest:
a) Be careful while installing this hack (especially in step 2). If you install it wrongly, your members may get a lot of irrelevant greetings.
b) To make sure you installed it correctly, turn on DEBUG mode AND administrator notifications in the options of the hack while you are installing it. So the hack will NOT send any notifications to members but only send daily reports to admin. Keep an eye on these reports for a few days and if you made sure you installed it correctly and it works ok, you can safely turn off debug mode.


Enjoy the hack and if you install the hack please click INSTALL, thank you..

Logician \\=^))

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I'm using vbHome and I have the birthday thread going to the forum for my vcHome page articles. Curiously, the thread shows up on the page, but not the contents of the post.

Example is here: www.churchmedia.net/community/index.php

(I'm working on other vbhome bugs, BTW). Any ideas?

Other than that, the hack is working perfectly and the points addon is great! Fantastic work!
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I'm using vbHome and I have the birthday thread going to the forum for my vcHome page articles. Curiously, the thread shows up on the page, but not the contents of the post.
The threads created by my hack are just regular vb threads so are not technically different than other vb threads in anyway.

I don't know vbHome hack, never used it nor checked its code so I don't know why they clash but it's certain that it's not accepting "regular" vb threads as articles and requiring some modifications in them to assign them article status.

Sorry this is all help I can offer..
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Thanks... I'll check with Teck on his hack and see if he has any ideas. Threads posted manually seem to work. I don't know why a thread created automatically wouldn't...
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My members are getting birthday greetings sent to them when their birthdays are months away! Help
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My members are getting birthday greetings sent to them when their birthdays are months away! Help
Did it happen once at the first run of the hack (then it should be related to the wrong applience of installation step 2, very likely month-date order) or do you experience this problem constantly everyday? You can set the hack to debug mode (so members will not get notifications), turn on admin notification and monitor it for a while to make sure if it's a constant problem..
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Working great so far! Had to make minor changes to incorporate the last title of homepage hack, but it works great!
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Originally posted by Logician

Did it happen once at the first run of the hack (then it should be related to the wrong applience of installation step 2, very likely month-date order) or do you experience this problem constantly everyday? You can set the hack to debug mode (so members will not get notifications), turn on admin notification and monitor it for a while to make sure if it's a constant problem..
I set it to debug mode after I realized what was happening.

I'll take a look @ the date thingie and see what's up.
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This is what I have in my timetick table:

Code:
 id  action  leftdate  leftid  
 1 birthday 2003-02-13 0
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This is what I have in my timetick table:

Code:
 id  action  leftdate  leftid  
 1 birthday 2003-02-13 0
It looks all right. If your server time is also correct, I strongly believe, the hack should work ok from now on. Please keep an eye on admin notifications..

If it's ok for a few days, this means initial date (step 2) was set wrongly in the installation. You can then turn off debug mode..
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hi logician,

super hack

is there a way to display the european date format in the thread e.g. 24.02.2002 after the age?

regards tina
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