Auto Email/PM for Birthday Greetings Hack. Are you interested?

[freeshares1]

I would happily beta test this for, If you are still looking for testers, Email me @ webmaster@gamblingforums.net

phil

[Logician]

Originally posted by Boofo
I just installed the hack you sent me. I changed my birthdate to today to test it and nothing had happened so far. Am I missing a step somewhere?

@Boofo: yep patience..

First set your birthday to tomarrow, the day hack is installed will not be greeted. Secondly be patient. Hack does not greet the birthdays at exactly 12.00 AM, they can be greeted anytime in the day, so you may have to wait for sometime. This behaviour is intentional so that your server load wont increase..

@freeshares1: hack sent to your email, thx..

Regards,
Logician

[Dean C]

i will happily test this out providing there are no mysql queries to run...

EMAIL: rapstar10@hotmail.com

[Logician]

sorry Mist, it adds a table to MYSQL, so not SQL query free..

[Dark_Wizard]

The link was to provide a demo for anyone wanting to see it....the hack works fine. the install was great....UT player too huh? That's my passion and waiting patiently for UT2003!

[Boofo]

That's why I would have made a lousy doctor...no patience. Will set the birthdate and let you know how it goes. By the way, is there a way to maybe have it do an e-mail AND the forum, if I wanted to do both of them?

[Boofo]

It worked flawlessly. It sent the PM at around 12.52 am (server time). Now, what would make this hack perfect, is if you could do the greeting according to the users set time, if they have set it in the options. It showed me having a birthday 2 hours before I had it set for. It showed it on the 27th at 10 pm and I had it set for the 28th. My server is GMT and my time is is central time (GMT -6).
Just a thought. I did set a phony year to make sure it worked right.

[Boofo]

Another suggestion...is there a way to control whether my signature shows up in the birthday message to the user, whether it be the forum mode, pm mode or email mode? I have it enabled in my options but don't necessarily want it in the birthday message.

[Logician]

@boofo: Unfortunately I cant make it work according to user's time settings. It requires too much work and more importantly hack will be awkard and unstable. However I can suggest you setting "timeset" variable inside the hack options.

For example if your server is in GMT-5 but most of your users time setting is GMT+2 set your variable as "+7". Then hack will greet birtdays according to this setting and will work better at least for most of the users.

As for creating the thread, yep I plan to change its design. In fact I didnt plan to add a feature to "create a thread", hack was supposed to send pm or email or both only. But Crazy Mofo asked me to add such a feature (and I didnt hear from him anymore.) and I added the feature. Now it is requested that it will both create a thread and send pm(or email). I'll see what I can do. I think I can modify it to work this way.

Phony years dont stop the hack from working however, user's age would be odd, for sure

[Boofo]

I understand the time issue, but is there any way that it could be delayed until 12 noon on the birthday? Then it would be sure to get everyone on their birthday, no matter what timezone they were in, since GMT can only go +12 at the most. Does that make sense?

As far as the email, pm and thread option, it would be nice to have any combination of them that you want. It would appeal to everyone that way with it's flexibility.

Originally posted by Logician
@boofo: Unfortunately I cant make it work according to user's time settings. It requires too much work and more importantly hack will be awkard and unstable. However I can suggest you setting "timeset" variable inside the hack options.

For example if your server is in GMT-5 but most of your users time setting is GMT+2 set your variable as "+7". Then hack will greet birtdays according to this setting and will work better at least for most of the users.

As for creating the thread, yep I plan to change its design. In fact I didnt plan to add a feature to "create a thread", hack was supposed to send pm or email or both only. But Crazy Mofo asked me to add such a feature (and I didnt hear from him anymore.) and I added the feature. Now it is requested that it will both create a thread and send pm(or email). I'll see what I can do. I think I can modify it to work this way.