Miscellaneous Hacks - Cyb - Auto Birthday Greeter

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
v1.4 - May 03. 2008.
-Compatible with vBulletin 3.7
-Minor bugs fixed

Mark as INSTALLED to get support and updates.

[ShawneyJ]

ah good im not the only one with this thing not working.

[smirkley]

Well I just tested this again and it worked for me using the above method to make it work as I posted.

I cant wait for the next VB update, so this issue can be resolved.

I feel confident that it will work after the fix is published, like it should.

[ProAzn]

Originally Posted by smirkley

Well I just tested this again and it worked for me using the above method to make it work as I posted.

I cant wait for the next VB update, so this issue can be resolved.

I feel confident that it will work after the fix is published, like it should.

I did your change and set a birthday to occur 2 days after the change and still nothing. I don't think cached data (in this case) had any effect in it NOT working...

[ProAzn]

The birthday mod finally worked but problem is the time of thread. I set it to -2 as I am central time and want to catch all west coast birthdays. It supposed to place a thread at 2 am but instead posts it at 12.48pm the afternoon of the birthday.

Anyone explain why?? Argh!

[nightbloom]

I have a unique issue. Because we are picky about silly details, we use classes to color user group names. I didnt like that when you mouse over a name, it uses the default hover link color to underline instead of the username color. Adding classes in the style fixed that.

So, the problem is that when the auto birthday thread is made for a user group that isnt using the default color, it posts color="moderator" instead of the actual color.

How could we fix this and keep the CSS classes for our usergroups?

[DragonMasterNYC]

I ran into the same problem today when I installed it it says

PHP Code:

[color =green]username[/color] 


Has anyone figured out a way to fix this.

[Valter]

Remove spaces from usergroup tags.

[DragonMasterNYC]

Originally Posted by Cybernetec

Remove spaces from usergroup tags.

That's how it shows up in the post.

This is my code in usergroups <span style="color: green;font-weight: bold;"> (just so happened to be someones birthday when I tested it.)

So why would It show like that.

[Valter]

<span style="color: green;font-weight: bold;">
should be:
<span style="color:green;font-weight:bold;">

Just remove extra spaces.

[DragonMasterNYC]

Originally Posted by Cybernetec

<span style="color: green;font-weight: bold;">
should be:
<span style="color:green;font-weight:bold;">

Just remove extra spaces.

well Ill see when midnight hits on the forums I took every space out I could find in all usergroups.