File Name: Member Anniversaries
File Submitter: Bob van Leeuwen
File Submitted: 30 Mar 2010
File Category: Hooks and Plugins

Adds a new feature to your board index similar to the members' birthdays, but this is for members' anniversaries of their join date for that forum. Functions just like the birthdays in that it shows how many years they've been a member, and gives the same ACP control to be able to show this or not and to auto-hide if none to show. Also now allows you to send out anniversary reminders to your members so that you can remind them to re-visit the forum if they no longer do.

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Thanks.

Will this work on 3.1?

No one has yet reported to me that it doesn't, so I'm assuming it should.

Hi Michael, This mod is great - Thank you!!

One small problem that I just noticed, however. I have a test account that received the anniversary email, and the formatting of the message was messed up...so all the members who have been receiving their emails have had incorrect formatting. Here's an example:

Hey member,

As of today you've been a MYWEBSITEHERE member for a total of 4 year(s)!  <div>

</div><div>We are happy to have you as part of our Community and hope to see you online soon!

<div>

<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; "></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; ">Best Regards,

Is this a known issue, and is there a fix for this?
Thanks

Nice hook :)

Hi Michael, This mod is great - Thank you!!

One small problem that I just noticed, however. I have a test account that received the anniversary email, and the formatting of the message was messed up...so all the members who have been receiving their emails have had incorrect formatting. Here's an example:

Is this a known issue, and is there a fix for this?

Thanks

It's never done that for me in my testing, nor has anyone reported it before. I'll look at it again and see if anything's changed since I created this. Which type of editor are you using to set up the contents of this email, the standard or RTE?

Im using the RTE in 3.1.3

Thanks!

Try the attached file for the hook's /admin/applications/members/tasks/anniversaries.php file and see if that fixes it.

Hi Michael, thanks for the update. I'll give it a shot. Question - How could I test this? The only way I found this issue was when one of my 'secret' accounts that happened to come to my email. But hundreds of emails had been sent out before I received a copy. What would be your suggestion to be able to test it right away?
Thanks

See who would be receiving such a message and ask them.

With most of the registered members being inactive users, that is going to be difficult. Any other way to check same day the results?

Thanks,

You could create a test account, set their joined date to exactly a year ago (there are online unix timestamp generators that can help with this), run the task, and check the PM they receive. But that's exactly what I did to test the version I just uploaded in the post above, and it was fine for me.

Hi Michael. Will this be upgraded for 3.2?

Yeah, I'd like to see this updated for 3.2 as well.

+1 for 3.2 version - thanks!

Thank you!

3.2 version - thank you - thank you - thank you!

Thank you - thank you - thank you!

Michael, thanks for updating this. Works perfectly. :grin:

Thank you :)

Is it posible to set it up to default view as Collapsed (with existing expand link)?

Short answer: No

Lon answer: Yes, but in order to do that I have to rewrite the mod with taking that into consideration, and it would then mean that that's the way it always works for everyone who installs this, and from what I've been told most people don't want it to default to collapsed, so the current way is the favored way by the most people. There's no way I can make it so you can choose the default state.

Can do somehow to the color the user would like his group?

If you're asking whether the hook shows member names formatted with their group prefix and suffix, it does that already by calling the IPSMember::makeNameFormatted() function on the member names it displays.