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

[cykelmyggen]

Will this work on 4.1.4? Had it on 3.7. and users loved it

[kylek]

Originally Posted by snoopytas

The day period and post count do work together.

Ie. set 2 posts in the last 10 days.
This allows you to set a basic activity level.

It also only counts posts to forums that count towards 'post count' - if that makes sense.

Thank you!

One last dumb question.

In your screenshot you have a smilie party5 and this is where we would like to link an image to show, just cant remember what to put for the code.

What coding is needed to link to an image to be displayed at the top of the post and pm?

[CK]

Installed, rated and nominated.

Could you explain this for me, I'm having a blonde day.

Happy Birthday Post Heading
Text for Heading post {xx} = 1st 2nd 3rd 4th etc, {username} {bdate}

Specifically "Text for Heading post" is that something I have to configure?

Also does this mod ignore people who have chosen not to display birthday? - Can see that it does from OP, thank you

[AusPhotography]

Originally Posted by CK

Installed, rated and nominated. ...

Thanks.

The {} syntax allows you to put markers in the heading and message that are then filled out with the specific details of that members birthday.

So

Happy {xx} Birthday {username}! ({bdate})

becomes

Happy 54th Birthday ashey! (17th of June)

Eg:
http://www.ausphotography.net.au/for...7th-of-June%29
(On our site)

[AusPhotography]

Originally Posted by cykelmyggen

Will this work on 4.1.4? Had it on 3.7. and users loved it

Yes. It works on our 4.1.4 test system.
I doubt any major future change to vB will affect this very much at all.

Originally Posted by kylek

Thank you!
One last dumb question.
In your screenshot you have a smiley party5 and this is where we would like to link an image to show, just cant remember what to put for the code.
What coding is needed to link to an image to be displayed at the top of the post and pm?

Ah, party5 is a custom smiley face on our site.
Edit the text via AdminCP to put whatever you want.

[CK]

Thanks Snoopy!

[sweetpotato]

Thank you for the Mod. How can I use translated phrase on multilanguage site?

[whitey92lx]

Thanks! It was very easy to install.

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Just got a few emails:

Database error in vBulletin 4.0.3:

Invalid SQL:

SELECT `forumid` FROM vbwsm_`forum`
WHERE (`forum`.`options` & 4096)
ORDER BY `forumid`;

MySQL Error : Table 'kevin_vbwsm.vbwsm_' doesn't exist
Error Number : 1146
Request Date : Friday, June 24th 2011 @ 11:53:06 AM
Error Date : Friday, June 24th 2011 @ 11:53:06 AM
Script : http://www.westsidemustangs.com/cron...and=1308934385
Referrer : http://www.westsidemustangs.com/sear...earchid=398297
IP Address : 70.240.73.124
Username : Unregistered
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version :



- I am not the original owner of my site, and some other person set the version of vbulletin up about 2 years ago. Maybe something has him listed where it should have me listed?

[AusPhotography]

Fixed! 1.0.3

[AusPhotography]

Originally Posted by sweetpotato

Thank you for the Mod. How can I use translated phrase on multilanguage site?

The birthday greeting text is single language. I'm not planning on changing that as it suites our site the way it is.