Send User a PM on Birthday

Ok, I made a little hack to send users a PM on their Birthday.

Fixed

First, make a new file, pmbday.txt, and chmod it to 777.

Next open index.php and add this code:

// send PM if Birthday
$message = "Your message here.\n";
$title = "Happy Birthday!!";
$username = $bbuserinfo['username'];

if(vbdate('m-d', time()) == substr($bbuserinfo['birthday'], 5)){
$file = file("pmbday.txt");
while(list(,$value) = each($file)){
list($user, $date) = explode("|", $value);
if($username == $user){
}else{

$touserid = $bbuserinfo['userid'];

$DB_site->query("INSERT INTO privatemessage (privatemessageid, userid,touserid, fromuserid, title, message, dateline, showsignature, iconid, messageread, folderid, receipt) VALUES (NULL,$touserid,$touserid,1,'$title','$message',". time().",0,0,0,0,0)");

if($noshutdownfunc){
$DB_site->query("UPDATE user SET pmpopup=2 WHERE userid=$touserid");
}else{
$shutdownqueries[]="UPDATE LOW_PRIORITY user SET pmpopup=2 WHERE userid=$touserid";
}

$date = date("m.d.y");
$fp = fopen("pmbday.txt", a);
fputs($fp, "$username|$date|\n");
fclose($fp);
}
}
}

You can add it pretty much anywhere in index.php.

If you have questions or comments, feel free to post them.

[melondog]

It's all fixed guys. I hope there arn't anymore problems with it.

[pwr_sneak]

ok, this works now, but adds load to the server and doesn't work on forums, which use multiple boxes, but these problems are very special

Another problem could occur more often. Your hack won't work if a user got a pipe (|) in his username, better to use userid.

My idea was, send all PM notifications just once a day on the first page-impression after midnight.
Do do that add right after:
while ($birthday=$DB_site->fetch_array($bdays)) {

while ($birthday=$DB_site->fetch_array($bdays)) {
$message = "Your message here.\n"; 
$title = "Happy Birthday!!"; 

$DB_site->query("INSERT INTO privatemessage (privatemessageid, userid,touserid, fromuserid,
 title, message, dateline, showsignature, iconid, messageread, folderid, receipt) VALUES (NULL,
$birthday[userid],$birthday[userid],1,'$title','$message',".time().",0,0,0,0,0)");