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.

[Tralala]

Feature request: I'd love to have the thread include the user's avatar in the thread. Please? I'm happily using Andreas' hack, and that's the only thing I'm missing, and would really love. If this hack could include the user's avatar in the bday thread I'd switch to this one for sure...

Thanks for sharing!

[Doctor Death]

Originally Posted by Tralala

Feature request: I'd love to have the thread include the user's avatar in the thread. Please? I'm happily using Andreas' hack, and that's the only thing I'm missing, and would really love. If this hack could include the user's avatar in the bday thread I'd switch to this one for sure...

Thanks for sharing!

This is a great idea...

[Doctor Death]

This works well, except the message that it creates does not convert the color code to color...

1 member is celebrating birthday on 09-10-2007: Everyone take an opportunity to say Happy Birthday!!


-[color= yellow]Tumble Weed[/color] (born in 1975, Age: 32)


Happy Birthday!

HTML and BB Code is turned on in the post.

Can you help?

[Valter]

Originally Posted by Doctor Death

This works well, except the message that it creates does not convert the color code to color...

Check usergroup settings and remove unneeded spaces in opening tag.

If it's:
color: yellow
change it to:
color:yellow

or if it's:
color=" yellow"
change it to
color="yellow"

Unneeded spaces will be removed automatically in next version.

[Doctor Death]

Wow nicely called... sure enough I had a space between ":" and color attribute.

Thanks much, you clearly are on the ball.

[KURTZ]

nice one Cyb!

[GateKeper]

installed on our forum, running 3.6.5

however I do believe it's not working correctly

in here - Greeter(s) (comma separated UserID list)

I added these - 1,2,3,4,6,11,35,59,97

but only one post was created by only one of the member id's

and that was by the last one on the list # 97

Happy Birthday ASoto
1 member is celebrating birthday on September 12th, 2007:

-ASoto (born in 1959, Age: 48)


Happy Birthday!

any ideas why this happened, for now I will just use the number 1 id, and not add any more id's

I was under the assumption, that the id's added to the greeters line, would show up on the post as the ones wishing the happy birthday to the individual, I only see it coming from one of my staff to the birthday member

[GateKeper]

Originally Posted by GateKeper

installed on our forum, running 3.6.5

however I do believe it's not working correctly

in here - Greeter(s) (comma separated UserID list)

I added these - 1,2,3,4,6,11,35,59,97

but only one post was created by only one of the member id's

and that was by the last one on the list # 97





any ideas why this happened, for now I will just use the number 1 id, and not add any more id's

I was under the assumption, that the id's added to the greeters line, would show up on the post as the ones wishing the happy birthday to the individual, I only see it coming from one of my staff to the birthday member

Never mind, found the answer......ohhh well....

Several users can be set as greeters (used randomly when posting). Thread will be created first time when someone loads forumhome after midnight.

[puertoblack2003]

hello i received thos error message when i was testing it out

Fatal error: Call to a member function query_first() on a non-object in xxxxxx\htdocs\xxxxxx\forums\includes\class_mail.ph p(266) : eval()'d code on line 4

this worked on my version .6.7 i upgraded it to .8 when this caused an error

[Makc666]

$vbphrase[cybabgreeter_age_info] 
Age: {1}

I think it is better to write this word from the small letter:

age: {1}