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

[Gadget_Guy]

It just fired off now on my site.

If I am correct in what I just saw... the posts are a day late.

It sent birthday greetings to people who's b-day was yesterday not today.

I wonder if it is a time discrepancy with my server or something?

It's also still not adding anything to the log

D.

[AusPhotography]

What is your server timezone?

What is your forum timezone?

[Gadget_Guy]

Originally Posted by AusPhotography

What is your server timezone?

What is your forum timezone?

I believe I have them both set to be America/Toronto

D.

[AusPhotography]

There is a 4 hour delay, i.e. the thread/PM should go 4 hours after the members birthday in their timezone.

You server and forum TZ are ok if in sync

[Gadget_Guy]

It seems to be working fine, now that I understand the functionality a bit better.

Something my users requested was the ability to have all the birthday wishes go into one post per day rather than opening separate threads for each wish.

We have a lot of members on our site and on some days it will spawn pages of individual threads of birthdays which they find clutters the forums.

If we could get all the B-Day wishes for the day to go into a single daily thread that would be a great add-on to the mod.

Thanks,

D.

[AusPhotography]

I'm not going to change it at this stage.

I suggest you create a Birthday forum and have posts all go to one place; that might be easier

[Gadget_Guy]

Originally Posted by AusPhotography

I'm not going to change it at this stage.

I suggest you create a Birthday forum and have posts all go to one place; that might be easier

I have done this already.

The challenge is that in the morning when people log in and click "new posts" it's full of birthday announcements.

D.

[ozzy47]

Originally Posted by Gadget_Guy

I have done this already.

The challenge is that in the morning when people log in and click "new posts" it's full of birthday announcements.

D.

I suggest you use this mod along side this one then, [OzzModz] Exclude Forums From New Posts Search

[Gadget_Guy]

There appears to be an error in the PM that is sent to the users.

The message being sent is:

Dear Howard,

You have received a new private message at Toronto Subaru Club from Krusty The Clown, entitled "Happy 44th Birthday Howard!".

To read the original version, respond to, or delete this message, you must log in here:
http://www.toronto-subaru-club.com/forums/private.php

This is the message that was sent:
***************
*Happy 44th Birthday Howard (http://www.toronto-subaru-club.com/f...ers/howard/)!*

*Hope you have a wonderful day, and very best wishes from everyone here at the Toronto Subaru Club.




The link to the username is this: http://www.toronto-subaru-club.com/f...ers/howard/)!*


It includes the characters: ")!*" which make the url unresolvable

D.

[AusPhotography]

PM me you message template form the options for this plugin.
You may need to add a space somewhere