UBB.Developers Forums UBB.threads 6 V6 Modifications Finished-[6.2-6.3] Profile Birthdays 1.5 CRON ADDON

Mod Name / Version: Profile Birthdays 1.5 CRON ADDON

Description: OK - This is an AddOn if you are using the Birthday Mod.
It can do two things. It can send people a PM on their birthday, and it can make a post in a forum of your choice announcing "today's birthdays". This gives your members a place to reply with their well wishes.
It is fully configurable. You can choose to have it just do the PMs, or Just make the posts, or both. You can control what user number the PMs or Posts come from. You can also edit the content of the PMs and Post.



Working Under: UBB.Threads 6.2-6.3

Mod Status: Finished

Any pre-requisites: Requires the Profile Birthdays 1.5 Modification.

Author(s): JoshPet

Date: 04/28/03

Credits: Commissioned by Coy7, Racantaeur

Files Altered: none

New Files: birthdaycron.php

Database Altered: none

Info/Instructions: Drop the script into your threads directory, and set up a cron job to run it once a day (or run it in your browser once a day). Edit the variables at the top of the file to customize the options.

Thanks to Racantaeur for help fixing the blank posts when there were no birthdays.

Question:
I have the birthday cron set up to send pms and post on the boards. Problem is, even if there is no birthdays, it makes a post to the boards with the name blank.

How do I set it up to only make a post if there is a birthday and not when there is none?

Do you have the latest?

An early version of this had that problem - but the latest does not. I run it on several sites.

I just uploaded the latest version of the birthday cron file, I will see what happens!

Version for 6.4 posted HERE.

Thank you - somehow I'd been using mine on 6.4 but I think I never posted it. Much appreciated.

there must be a bug somewhere. Today (2.january) the cronfile create a birthday reminder for a member who have birthday on 22.january. I review the database and the date is entered correct. Can this be a bug in your birthday cron ?

I see the problem in Nikos' version.

My version is working fine, but I'd forgotten to post the update. So I just posted it HERE. Use this script, as I just checked. My birthdays today got selected correctly.