birthday in thread

Description: This hack prints some message or displays a picture in a post when that particular user has a birthday on that moment.

Version tested: 2.01, but will probaby work on all 2.0 versions

instructions:

1. Create a new file called birthday.php with the following content:
   
   <?php
   
   $today_day = date("d",mktime(date("H"),date("i"),date("s"),date ("m"),date("d"),date("Y"))+($bbuserinfo[timezoneoffset]-$timeoffset)*3600);
   $today_month = date("m",mktime(date("H"),date("i"),date("s"),date ("m"),date("d"),date("Y"))+($bbuserinfo[timezoneoffset]-$timeoffset)*3600);
   $today_year = date("Y",mktime(date("H"),date("i"),date("s"),date ("m"),date("d"),date("Y"))+($bbuserinfo[timezoneoffset]-$timeoffset)*3600);
   $userday = explode("-",$post[birthday]);
   
   if($today_day == $userday[2] && $today_month == $userday[1])
   { $bday = explode("-",$userinfo[birthday]);
   if(date("Y")>$bday[0] and $bday[0]>1901 && $bday[0]!='0000')
   { $birthday = @date($calformat1,mktime(0,0,0,$bday[1],$bday[2],$bday[0]));
   }
   else
   { // lets send a valid year as some PHP3 don't like year to be 0
   // $calformat2 should not contania year identifier so the year doesn't matter
   $birthday = @date($calformat2,mktime(0,0,0,$bday[1],$bday[2],1993));
   }
   if($birthday=="")
   { $birthday="$bday[1]-$bday[2]-$bday[0]";
   }
   if($today_year > $userday[0] && $userday[0] != '0000')
   { $age = $today_year-$userday[0];
   }
   
   eval ("\$post[has_a_birthday] = \"".gettemplate("postbit_birthday")."\";");
   }
   
   ?>
2. create a new template called postbit_birthday
   
   with some text like:
   
   Congrats! It's $post[username]'s birthday!
   
   (you can use the following variables in this template:
   
   $birthday: Will contain the birthday of the user in a nice format
   $age: Will only contain a value (obviously the age of this user) when the user has filled in his birthyear
   
3. backup showthread.php
4. open showthread.php
   
   and add:
   
   // Begin birthdayhack
   include("birthday.php");
   // End birthdayhack
   
   before:
   
   eval("\$post[profile] = \"".gettemplate("postbit_profile")."\";");
5. save showthread.php
6. insert $post[has_a_birthday] somewhere in the postbit template

enjoy

[Blue2000]

nice one dude.. Look alright that does.

do you have a demo?

[Dakota]

You can see it in action on my forum.

Great hack. you did a good job on it.

[mister]

just installed it, works great, thanks!

Thanks Mas*Mind

[cditty]

I just tried to install it and I get an error on line 25 of birthday.php.

All I did was cut & paste from here. Wierd.

This is the line:

PHP Code:

eval ("\$post[has_a_birthday] = \"".gettemplate("postbit_birthday")."";"); 


Any ideas?

[maverick1236]

Mines on line 26......

[Mas*Mind]

yup....the [php] code screws code up:

eval ("\$post[has_a_birthday] = \"".gettemplate("postbit_birthday")."";

should be:

eval ("\$post[has_a_birthday] = \"".gettemplate("postbit_birthday")."\";");

[maverick1236]

now the problem is here: in showthread.php
// Begin birthdayhack
include("birthday.php");
// End birthdayhack

something is screwed up with the code here-im getting errors

any ideas?

[cditty]

Working for me. Thanks for the revised code.

Maverick, what errors are you getting now?

Chris