Birthday, User Age and Zodiac Hack v1.2 (Working Version)

Birthday, User Age and Zodiac Hack (Working Version)
Version 1.2 by Boofo (and Logician)

A very big Thank You goes out to Logician for helping to make this hack a reality. Without his expert coding and guidance, it would never have been. And a thank you also goes out to Slynderdale for giving me the idea to make this hack. Although I could never get his hack to work, it gave me some general ideas of where to start from.

What this hack does:

This will allow you to have the user's age, zodiac sign and chinese zodiac sign in the profile. It will also allow you to have the variable filled in instead of showing nothing if no information was entered.

(NOTE: This birthday code will also fix the problem that some people have encountered with the birthdate not displaying the correct date if the users birthday was before December 31, 1969. This was only reported to happen on a few installations on certain servers.)

Version 1.0 - Originally written for vBulletin 2.2.5 without the images showing.
Version 1.1 - Updated to work with vBulletin 2.2.9 and added images for the zodiac signs.
Version 1.2 - Updated the instruction file to avoid anyone changing the wrong birthday code.

This hack has been tested on version 2.2.9.

Files to edit: 1 (root/member.php)
Files to upload: 12 (zodiac image files)
Templates to Edit: 1 (getinfo)

[high]Please lick the install button if you find this hack useful.[/high]

[nnjj.net]

thanx alot its working great now and sorry for the file
BTW what if I want to use pictures for the chines zodiac instead of words ?

[Boofo]

Today at 05:14 AM nnjj.net said this in Post #51
thanx alot its working great now and sorry for the file
BTW what if I want to use pictures for the chines zodiac instead of words ?

Just make sure you upload the images to the zodiac directory and the names need to be the same as they are in the code (example: Hare.gif). If you come across a good set of images, let me know and I can include them in the file for others to use, too.

You will also need to change:

PHP Code:

<tr>
    <td bgcolor="{secondaltcolor}"><normalfont><b>Chinese Zodiac Sign:</b></normalfont></td>
    <td bgcolor="{secondaltcolor}"><normalfont>$chineszodiacsign</normalfont></td>
</tr> 


to:

PHP Code:

<tr>
    <td bgcolor="{secondaltcolor}"><normalfont><b>Chinese Zodiac Sign:</b></normalfont></td>
    <td bgcolor="{secondaltcolor}"><normalfont>$chinesezodiacimage</normalfont></td>
</tr> 


in the getinfo template.

[sabret00the]

Yesterday at 12:25 PM Boofo said this in Post #31
There's already been a gender hack released a while ago.

i know but i'm lazy just thought it would've been nice to have it all integrated into one great hack

[SmartGnome]

Works :banana:

Was in the wrong birthday part [dumb] :laugh: and install is clicked.

Last stupid question:

I'm a noob for VB [just changes from wbb to here], how can I put these into the postbit. I did use the vars, but no show

Again thanks for this nice addy Boofo

Greetzz

[Boofo]

Today at 06:42 AM sabret00the said this in Post #53
i know but i'm lazy just thought it would've been nice to have it all integrated into one great hack

I've done a few hack installs myself where I wished the very same thing.

[Boofo]

Today at 07:48 AM SmartGnome said this in Post #54
Works :banana:

Was in the wrong birthday part [dumb] :laugh: and install is clicked.

Thanks!

Last stupid question:

No question is stupid if you don't know the answer.

I'm a noob for VB [just changes from wbb to here], how can I put these into the postbit. I did use the vars, but no show

Again thanks for this nice addy Boofo

Greetzz

Erwin released an Age in postbit hack a while back just for that. The zodiacs would take some coding in the functions.php but could be done. The reason I never did it is because I didn't want to over-inflate the postbit with alot of the same info that is in the profile. I like to have fresh info in different places so users will take the time to check it all out.

[Boofo]

Today at 06:42 AM sabret00the said this in Post #53
i know but i'm lazy just thought it would've been nice to have it all integrated into one great hack

You must really be tired. You completely missed the install button. It's around here somewhere, I think.

[NuclioN]

Today at 02:18 PM Boofo said this in Post #56


I like to have fresh info in different places so users will take the time to check it all out.

I wonder if this is happening, most of our members like to have info right before their nose and are unwilling to cross different sections of the forum to harvest it.

I see the postbit as the nervecenter of a forum and there it's all come togehter to make a forum as interactive and rich in personal info as possible, without overloading it. The balance is a challenge, i admit that but in the mean time...it would be a nice addon if this images are displayed in the postbit to.

[Boofo]

Ok, Ok, you talked me into it. I will work on this later today and post it here when I have it finished.

[Boofo]

NuclioN, in the admin/functions.php file, copy the birthday code and the zodiac code (below it) AFTER the following code and put the same variables you are using in the profile where you want them to show up in the postbit. That should do it.

PHP Code:

        if ($post['receivepm'] and $enablepms==1) {
            eval("\$post[pmlink] = \"".gettemplate("postbit_sendpm")."\";");
        } else {
            $post[pmlink] = "";
        }