Version: 1.00, by ChurchMedia
Developer Last Online: Jun 2013
Version: 3.0.3
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Released: 03-17-2004
Last Update: Never
Installs: 115
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This hack is inspired by the Birthday Hack for vB2 by Logician. It will automatically create a Happy Birthday thread in a specified forum, listing the people with birthdays for that day. Then other members can post their happy birthday wishes in the thread.
I had the original hack installed on my VB2 board and when I upgraded to VB3 my members missed it. Luckily, it's really easy to implement.
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Files to modify: /includes/cron/birthday.php
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Instructions are in the attached text file. The mod should take about 5 minutes.
Be sure to change the variables that say // CHANGE ME
You can customize the message in the $birthday_greeting_thread variable. You could also ad IMG tags with an image of some kind, like in my screenshot.
Note that you MUST turn on BB CODE in you birthday forum in order for this to work properly.
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Enjoy (and thanks for the inspiration, Logician!)
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New in Version 2.0:
Bug fixes:
> More accurate age calculation. Sometimes it was a year off.
> The correct thread shows up in the last thread post on the forum home page.
> HTML is not required to be turned on in the birthday forum.
> Most of the code is completely rewritten to vB3 standards.
New features:
> Improved look
> Birthday line now says: (User) was born on (date), (AGE: xx)
> If the year is not given, it says "Not telling! " for age.
> The admin is emailed a list of the birthdays with links to their profiles and a link to the happy birthday thread.
> If you use the uShop/uCash hack, you can give birthday points to the users
Upgrading:
Since the code has changed so drastically, I suggest starting with a fresh copy of birthday.php and following the instructions for a new install.
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works great on 3.0.7 -- to creater: i would suggest that you let the installers know that in order to display bdays, the user MUST have receive emails from admin selected. i ran into the problem the other day when i kept running my cron and not knowing the user needed the option selectd.
Is there an edit that will allow me to let only people that are active on the board to get a birthday thread....ive realized that im sending out birthday threads to people that dont post at all ....
I really love this mod but wish there was an option to post in an existing thread rather than create a new post each time. How easy would that be to do?
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09-24-2005, 02:37 PM
