Getting a user's birthday and comparing it to today

Bira:

How is this hack holding up on your board? I haven't noticed any real slow downs at all.

Also, if you would. I ask this in another area but no one responded. I am working on another hack but I couldn't figure out how to have the script check todays date against a member's birthday in the main index.php file.


I want to use this check

if ($bbuserinfo['userid']!=0) {
  $username=$bbuserinfo['username'];
  eval("\$welcometext = \"".gettemplate('forumhome_welcometext')."\";");

and change this to

if ($bbuserinfo['birthday'] = today's date) {
etc.

I just don't know what to put in for today's date.

Thanks,
Parker

[bira]

well without deeply looking into it, it should be something like this:

PHP Code:

$birthdate = explode("-", $bbuserinfo['birthday']); // extracting the year month day
$birthday = $birthdate[1]."-".$birthdate[2]; // getting an m-d format of the birthday 
$today = vbdate("m-d", time()); // getting today's date in m-d format

if ($birthday==$today) { 
     // it's the user's birthday today

} else {
    // it's not his birthday

} 


[Parker Clack]

Bira:

That did the trick. Thanks so much again for your help. If I don't get a chance to say so in the future Merry Christmas to you and yours and a very Happy New Year.

Parker

[bira]

You too Parker, thanks for all your work!