Looking for Birthday Code

[qwe3]

Would it be possible to get birthdays from user data and post Happy Birthday to that user(s) in a block

Example:

Happy Birthday:

(User Names)

[alan s]

Contact technodragon73 he mentioned today that he had a mod installed that displayed a message on a users birthday

[qwe3]

I got it working using ssi, but what I want is only to display "todays birthdays"

[BCB]

can you let us all know what you did in the ssi as I would like to see what it does

[qwe3]

In a phpbox I added -- ssi_todaysBirthdays(); 

This seems to display all birthdays for the month,  I would like to display birthdays only for that day.

[BCB]

cool thanks.

[gerrymo]

I think the time period displayed is related to the calendar settings for the front page of the forum. Try setting it at 1 day, and see if that will only show birthdays for that day.

[qwe3]

gerrymo,

Perfect, that is all I needed to do.  Now it is displaying only todays birthdays. 

Thanks a million

[ontap]

Heres a way.. (allways make backups  )

Open Sources/Load.php
Find:

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$user_info['groups'] = array_unique($user_info['groups']);

Add After:

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if (isset($user_settings['birthdate']))
{
$cur_date = getdate(forum_time());
$user_info['today_is_birthday'] = $cur_date['mon'] == substr($user_settings['birthdate'], 5, 2) && $cur_date['mday'] == substr($user_settings['birthdate'], 8);
}


Search For:

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'email' => &$user_info['email']

Replace With:

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'email' => &$user_info['email'],
'today_is_birthday' => &$user_info['today_is_birthday'],


Open Themes/Default/TPortalBlocks.template.php
Find:

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echo '<span class="normaltext">
                                                        ', $txt['hello_member'], ' <b>', $context['user']['name'], '</b></span>';

Replace With

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if ($context['user']['today_is_birthday'])
echo '
<span class="normaltext"><b>Happy Birthday ', $context['user']['name'], '</b></span>';
else
echo '
<span class="normaltext">', $txt['hello_member'], ' <b>', $context['user']['name'], '</b></span>';


it will show on the user block.

[alan s]

Thanks OnTap! Nice Snippet