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Birthday Cake in postbits for all b-days for the week · **Released**: 05-12-2003

I searched high and low for something that would display a little birthday cake (or even text) in the postbits when it was someones birthday and came up empty, so I wrote my own with a twist. I decided to have it display a cake for anyones birthday for the entire week (week being Sun-Sat). That way they get a little more recognition that just on their actual b-day.

This should work with all versions of vB...

All you have to do is add a couple lines of code to your admin/functions.php and add the variable to your postbits.

Simple!

I just used the bday cake from MSN Messenger Page I'm not posting it here for legal reasons. If you want it to display just text you can change the line accordingly...

Like I said, I don't know if this has been done before, but my searches came up with nothing when searching for "birthday".

Enjoy.

jjj0923 · #42 11-29-2003, 10:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Elly

I changed the code to this

Code:

 
// Birthday cake in postbit
		for ($i = 0; $i <= 6; $i++) {
if ( substr($post[birthday],5) == vbdate('m-d',time()) ) {
  $bdaycake = " <img src='http://www.ultimaforce.net/asuka/kao/chirolp_cake.gif' border='0' align='absmiddle' alt='Its My Birhtday!!!'> ";
}
}
// END Birthday cake in postbit

and it seems to display the cake to all members on the day of their birthday

why are you hardcoding the path to your images?

it's not necessary, considered poor programming and just one more thing you have to change if your ever change directory structures...

firas · #43 12-10-2003, 02:08 AM

i liked it..i'll give it a try

Coordinator Inc · #44 12-22-2003, 10:50 AM

I'm sorry, I can't understand what this script does.
Where does it places the images?
And what is 'postbits' ???
Thanks a lot.

SRozhon · #45 01-23-2004, 04:58 PM

Will this work with vb3 RC? I like it!

ashley53680 · #46 04-21-2004, 01:51 AM

Is there anyway to get this to work on vb3 gold?

flup · #47 04-21-2004, 02:34 PM

Maybe a little tip;
If user is having his birthday show b-day cake in;

- Postbit
- Userlist
- Who's Online
- Usergroup page
- Friendslist in userCP

Just some tips

ashley53680 · #48 04-21-2004, 02:43 PM

I guess I should clarify... in the vb2 instructions it says under admin/functions.php to make some changes. Well I don't have an admin/functions.php so what file would I edit?

eoc_Jason · #49 05-05-2004, 04:03 AM

I'm sure for vB3 you can just use conditionals to display an icon....

ashley53680 · #50 05-05-2004, 04:05 AM

Hmmm, I have no idea how to do that!!!! haha

Baptizer · #51 06-18-2004, 03:23 PM

Any idea how to get this to work for vb3? My users have fallen in love with this feature!

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