Birthday Condition?

[akiy]

Is there any easy way to check if today is a poster's birthday using a condition?

I'm thinking it might be nice to put a birthday cake icon next in the postbit if it's that person's birthday...

[Tony G]

That is possible, I don't know how simple though. I'm thinking of a very simple way to do it but I might be missing a step. Plus there may be no variable to call someone's birthdate data.

[akiy]

Hi Tony,

Thank you for your response.

At least in the postbit template (where I'd be using the birthday cake icon), it looks like $post[birthday] will get you the poster's birthday information. I guess the toughest part then would be to somehow compare that date with today's date using only the month and day portions of the two variables (eg "02-11-1960" and "02-11-2004" needing to be "equal" to set off the condition). Now that I think of it, I don't know if this is possible just with templates as there'll most likely be a need to take the substring of the date(s) -- something that vBulletin doesn't allow without hacking as far as I know...

[Logikos]

Your right akiy, that would require hacking the /includes/functions_showthread.php if im not mistaking. Maybe you could get a respond at vb.org. Something i prolly would use.

[akiy]

I just went and created a hack and then went to post it onto vbulltin.org. I found out that someone had already posted a hack very much like it:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=52897

Although the hack in the thread above was released for vBulletin 2.3.x, it was easy enough to place the code into construct_postbit() in functions_showthread.php in 3.0.0 RC4. The hack also allows you to place a birthday cake icon up to a week before the person's birthday. It was easy enough to modify the code to only show the birthday icon on the day of the birthday...

[Tony G]

Glad you got it sorted out.

[NuclioN]

It doesn't work in our RC4 but it could very well be that the code is at the wrong spot. Can you show us where to put the and 'what' code?

[Logikos]

[QUOTE=akiy] it was easy enough to place the code into construct_postbit() in includes/functions_showthread.php in 3.0.0 RC4.QUOTE]



My guess is to look for construct_postbit()

[akiy]

Thanks for the corrected path to functions_showthread.php, Nemesis.

I don't want to get too deep into this hack since, after all, this is vBulletinTemplates.com, after all...

But, I basically just edited includes/functions_showthread.php.

After:

                // IM icons
                construct_im_icons($post);

I added:

                // Birthday cake in postbit HACK                                                                                    
                if (substr($post['birthday'], 0, 5) == vbdate("m-d")) {
                       $bdaycake = " <img src='/graphics/birthdaycake.gif' width='18' height='19' border='0' align='absmiddle' alt='Today is my birthday!'> ";
                }
                // END Birthday cake in postbit HACK

I then used $bdaycake in the postbit and postbit_legacy templates where I wanted the cake icon to show.

Hope that helps!

[Logikos]

Good deal