Automatic Birthday Thread

Automatic Birthday Thread

Description
This Hack creates a birthday thread in the forum you select, an optional report is sent to an eMail address you specify.
You can also choose to give them uCash (if you have uCash installed).

User's privacy selection is taken care of, eg. only those that allow their DOB to be displayed will be listed.

Credits to ChurchMedia for the original vBulletin 3.0 Hack.

Details
1 Product XML (4 settings, 14 phrases)
1 Cronscript


History
1.0.0
Initial Version

1.0.1

• Removed some debug code
• Fixed phrase missing linebreak
• Fixed userlist not being shown in body
• Added option to only list active users

This Hack is unsupported! All support requests except proven bugs will be IGNORED

FAQ

1. Q: This Hack does not work!
   A: Although it is possible that you have discovered a new bug which causes this Hack to not work, there is a good chance that there are other problems:
   • Did you select the correct Forum?
   • Did you enter the correct UserID?
   • Are you using the original phrases?
   • Do you have https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=96018 installed?
     This Hack has a bug which might cause failure.

[Mikecp421]

nice thanks, will buy the regular one soon!

[caimakale]

Originally Posted by caimakale

This is the error I get in 3.5.3

Automatic Birthday Thread

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING in /home/website/public_html/includes/cron/birthdaythread.php(102) : eval()'d code on line 5

Any ideas or help?

This error only occurs when I run the cron. It only occurs on days when people have a birthday.

No birthday....no errors.

The line in question?

eval(fetch_email_phrases('bdaygreet', $userinfo['languageid']));

Anybody?

[Mikecp421]

I installed this and it does not post at all, I checked a member today and his profile has a displayed birthday so I dont know?? Any ideas

[caimakale]

Originally Posted by Mikecp421

I installed this and it does not post at all, I checked a member today and his profile has a displayed birthday so I dont know?? Any ideas

Mike go into your Admin CP >> Scheduled tasks >> Scheduled Task Manager. Find the Automatic Birthday Thread and click on "Run Now".

When you do that are you getting the same error as me? I noticed you too are running 3.5.3, might be a bug with this version.

[Mikecp421]

I didn't know this was an option, thanks and yes I did get this error when trying that

Automatic Birthday Thread

Warning: main(/www/m/meogeecom/htdocs/./includes/cron/birthdaythread.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /admincp/cronadmin.php on line 64

Warning: main(): Failed opening '/www/m/meogeecom/htdocs/./includes/cron/birthdaythread.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/php4') in /admincp/cronadmin.php on line 64

Done

[kall]

This works absolutely fine for me on 3.5.3.

Those of you who are having difficulties: Do you have any prior versions installed? If so, Uninstall them (especcially if you had this hack installed on 3.0.x .. this will require enabling debug mode and removing the entries from the AdminCP - vBulletin Options list.

Mike: Yours appears to be related to running on IIS? I am sorry, but I have no experience with this setup. Try entering the full path to the file in your Scheduled Task area.

[Mikecp421]

I got it figured out, the php folder it calls to is not named the same, the folder needs to be changed to birthdaythread.php and the error goes away

[Mikecp421]

now I need to check somehow if it works, let me try to run it now

[caimakale]

Mine had to do with my message. I took out all bb code and smilies and it works now.

[Mikecp421]

i'll give that a try then too