birthday in thread

Description: This hack prints some message or displays a picture in a post when that particular user has a birthday on that moment.

Version tested: 2.01, but will probaby work on all 2.0 versions

instructions:

1. Create a new file called birthday.php with the following content:
   
   <?php
   
   $today_day = date("d",mktime(date("H"),date("i"),date("s"),date ("m"),date("d"),date("Y"))+($bbuserinfo[timezoneoffset]-$timeoffset)*3600);
   $today_month = date("m",mktime(date("H"),date("i"),date("s"),date ("m"),date("d"),date("Y"))+($bbuserinfo[timezoneoffset]-$timeoffset)*3600);
   $today_year = date("Y",mktime(date("H"),date("i"),date("s"),date ("m"),date("d"),date("Y"))+($bbuserinfo[timezoneoffset]-$timeoffset)*3600);
   $userday = explode("-",$post[birthday]);
   
   if($today_day == $userday[2] && $today_month == $userday[1])
   { $bday = explode("-",$userinfo[birthday]);
   if(date("Y")>$bday[0] and $bday[0]>1901 && $bday[0]!='0000')
   { $birthday = @date($calformat1,mktime(0,0,0,$bday[1],$bday[2],$bday[0]));
   }
   else
   { // lets send a valid year as some PHP3 don't like year to be 0
   // $calformat2 should not contania year identifier so the year doesn't matter
   $birthday = @date($calformat2,mktime(0,0,0,$bday[1],$bday[2],1993));
   }
   if($birthday=="")
   { $birthday="$bday[1]-$bday[2]-$bday[0]";
   }
   if($today_year > $userday[0] && $userday[0] != '0000')
   { $age = $today_year-$userday[0];
   }
   
   eval ("\$post[has_a_birthday] = \"".gettemplate("postbit_birthday")."\";");
   }
   
   ?>
2. create a new template called postbit_birthday
   
   with some text like:
   
   Congrats! It's $post[username]'s birthday!
   
   (you can use the following variables in this template:
   
   $birthday: Will contain the birthday of the user in a nice format
   $age: Will only contain a value (obviously the age of this user) when the user has filled in his birthyear
   
3. backup showthread.php
4. open showthread.php
   
   and add:
   
   // Begin birthdayhack
   include("birthday.php");
   // End birthdayhack
   
   before:
   
   eval("\$post[profile] = \"".gettemplate("postbit_profile")."\";");
5. save showthread.php
6. insert $post[has_a_birthday] somewhere in the postbit template

enjoy

[TigerLily]

Awesome hack! It didn't work for me in 2.0, but as soon as I upgraded to 2.01 it worked beautifully. Thank you so much!
TigerLily

[Alien]

Do these instructions need any updating? They're not working for me on my 2.0.3 board i'm testing...

For example, the line:

PHP Code:

eval("\$post[profile] = \"".gettemplate("postbit_profile")."\";"); 


Does not exist in showthread.php

I tried to include it in a couple of other places in there (like near the global.php include, but it did not display a thing in threads..

Ideas?

Thanks!

[Alien]

Problem solved!

The line mentioned above is located in:

/admin/functions.php

Yay. Now works perfectly in 2.0.3!

Great hack!

[squawell]

it's a nice hack~~~

so interesting~~~

thanks your hack it's work very well in my forum!!!

so it wont work on 2.0.0? if not then i am not going to try it :P

[cyrus]

it doesnt owrk in 2.0.3, i cant find what is needed in showthread.php !!!



can someone help me add this hack !

[Alien]

Read a few lines up...

[cyrus]

done,. thats fine

but whee do I go to see if this hack is working fine and also where do I upload my birthday.php file ??

+ I do not understand what I have to do in step "6"

can anyone help

thanks

[omniweapon]

PHP Code:

eval("\$post[profile] = \"".gettemplate("postbit_profile")."\";"); 


I can't find that line in functions.php .

[Okiewan]

eval("\$post[profile] = \"".gettemplate("postbit_profile")."\";");

Not in showthread or functions in ver 2.2.1

Any update available? Great hack!