Miscellaneous Hacks - Cyb - Auto Birthday Greeter

vB 3.7 VERSION HERE;
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=177931

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Info:
This hack automatically creates a birthday thread in the forum you select. Only members that allow their date of birth to be displayed will be listed, and age will be shown only for those who has choosen that. Members are shown in colors defined in usergroup settings. You can choose to exclude inactive members. Several users can be set as greeters (used randomly when posting). Thread will be created first time when someone loads forumhome after midnight.


Note:
-This executes 1 very simple query on forumhome.


Installation:
-Import XML file (as product) through AdminCP: Plugin System > Manage Products > [Add/Import Product]


To set options:
Go to: vBulletin Options > Cyb - Auto Birthday Greeter


Versions:
v1.0 - Aug 26. 2007.
-Initial release
v1.1 - Aug 27. 2007.
-New: Option to exclude members with post count lower than X
-Fixed bug where several threads are posted for the same birthday
-Shortcut to "Age" phrase added to the list on settings page
v1.2 - Aug 28. 2007.
-Date format follows your forum acp settings
-New: Option to exclude members joined in last X days
-Another fix for duplicate birthday threads on some forums
v1.3 - Aug 31. 2007.
-Option to synchronize hack with forum time to avoid situations where birthday thread is created too early or too late


Mark as INSTALLED to get support and updates.

[Mum]

Totally agree Cigarcritic

[meissenation]

Originally Posted by LightInClouds

still having multiple threads posted )

Seriously, HUGE problem with this mod. I have 12 instances of Happy Birthday threads for Today's birthday, and the Greeter also posted 8 additional instances of YESTERDAY'S birthdays. 20 threads, wtf?

How about making it a cron job instead? That way there's some error logging, if you want to make it run at a certain time it can be tweaked, if someone downloads it and installs it on their site then they can click "Run Now" to make a thread immediately instead of having to wait until Midnight for the 20 new threads to be created.

I'll leave it installed for now, just disabled. It's something I was really missing as there was a similar product for 3.5 that my users loved, but they didn't love the 20 new spam threads last night

[Valter]

v1.3 - Aug 31. 2007.
-Option to synchronize hack with forum time to avoid situations where birthday thread is created too early or too late

To upgrade: Import product XML, allow overwrite.

[SCRIPT3R]

Originally Posted by GearTripper

i also found one minor grammatical error:

PHP Code:

        <phrase name="cybabgreeter_message_user"><![CDATA[{1} member is celebrating birthday on {2}:
        {3}
        
        
        Happy Birthday!]]></phrase> 


should read...

PHP Code:

        <phrase name="cybabgreeter_message_user"><![CDATA[{1} member is celebrating their birthday on {2}:
        {3}
        
        
        Happy Birthday!]]></phrase> 


add "their" between "celebrating ### birthday".

Originally Posted by Cybernetec

v1.3 - Aug 31. 2007.
-Option to synchronize hack with forum time to avoid situations where birthday thread is created too early or too late

To upgrade: Import product XML, allow overwrite.

the above grammatical error is still there. their needs to be added for the single instance.

[cambridgedaz]

Originally Posted by cambridgedaz

Can an option be given so that this mod creates a post in an existing thread rather that creating a new thread each time?

That would be a big improvement to the mod I think.

:up:

*cough*

[G_Man]

More quality from Cyb.

cheers Mate!!

[Ignicoccus]

It would be great to have an option to create a thread for each user who has birthday, because this ist the way we are doing it now manually. Any chance to see this ?

[SledgeHammer101]

I have tried to get it working with 3.6.3, but there is no way to get it working. There is no thread created. I have tried every option but it doesn't works. Are there any ideas why ?

[futureye]

nice product i will installed right now

can you add only for active members

you don't want to open 30 thread when only 2 or 3 on that date are active members

[BellyBelly]

Awesome mod, thanks! Installed and working great on 3.6.8. Thanks!!!