Birthday Greeter Support

[Michael.J]

Birthday greeting system that sends out birthday greetings to your members via personal messages, email and birthday topics when it is a members birthday.

[TVplaneta]

hi!

and can we get list of tags?

[Michael.J]

and can we get list of tags?

I'm not quite sure what your after? Can you please clarify?

[TVplaneta]

I'm not quite sure what your after? Can you please clarify?

• Smart quick tags allow you to send out birthday greetings with information such as Board Name, Member's Name and Age.

[Michael.J]

 

• Smart quick tags allow you to send out birthday greetings with information such as Board Name, Member's Name and Age.

The following tags are included: {member_name}, {age}, {suffix}, {birth_day}, {birth_month}, {birth_year}, {todays_date}, {board_name} and {birthday_list}.

[TVplaneta]

How I can change time to post PM and E-mail?

[Michael.J]

On 9/10/2015 4:40:03, TVplaneta said:

How I can change time to post PM and E-mail?

Please see this discussion about this here, tasks are run "daily" rather then a fixed time. If your willing to setup a cron job, that might be a solution to get a specific time though.

[Michael.J]

v1.4.1 is released and confirms support for IP.Board 4.1 and includes a few minor bug fixes.

[Greg W]

Hi @Mike John We have recently set this up for posting a topic each day which is great & working well.

Yes, I had the problem of what time it posts, but have overcome that by manually running the task at the right time once, then, every day, it does it at the same time.

However, the problem I have is that our site is about 95% USA members and the title of the topic which is posted is in a format of yyyy-mm-dd and we would like it to be in the standard USA format of mm-dd-yyyy

Where can I change this?

Edited November 14, 2015 by Greg W

[Greg W]

@Mike John

Bump - See above post

[Michael.J]

On 15/11/2015, 2:23:42, Greg W said:

However, the problem I have is that our site is about 95% USA members and the title of the topic which is posted is in a format of yyyy-mm-dd and we would like it to be in the standard USA format of mm-dd-yyyy

Where can I change this?

I haven't tested it but I believe this should do the trick. Open applications/birthdaygreeter/sources/Alerts/Alerts.php

Find:

\IPS\DateTime::create()->format( 'Y-m-d' );

Replace With:

\IPS\DateTime::create()->localeDate();

I believe the local date should use the local date setting, if not change the format variables around to m-d-Y and I'll be sure to include this as a setting next version.

[VizionDev]

8 minutes ago, Mike John said:

the local date setting, if not change the format variables around to m-d-Y and I'll be sure to include this as a setting next version.

You may have some issues with DateTime using hyphens vs slash (British vs American) and localeDate() - I know this is a huge problem when using date()/strtotime() as they will interpret based on the usage of hyphens or slash.

Just to keep in mind  

[Greg W]

Thanks @Mike John & @VizionDev, although I am in the UK, the members are predominantly US, so I have just edited the original line to m-d-y

I will find out tomorrow if it does what I want

[Square Wheels]

I like this and use it on my site.

As a suggestion, embed the username as a mention, that way I can mouse over and see more info about the person.

[Michael.J]

On 18/12/2015 at 4:10 AM, Square Wheels said:

As a suggestion, embed the username as a mention, that way I can mouse over and see more info about the person.

Should be a minor change, will log as a bug so can include in the next version.

[Square Wheels]

1 hour ago, Mike John said:

Should be a minor change, will log as a bug so can include in the next version.

Thank you!

[Michael R]

Hmmm. I noticed that it stopped working this morning (no updates). So I went into settings to check is something was messed up. Now when I try to save, I get this error:

 

Edited January 21, 2016 by Michael R

[Michael.J]

10 hours ago, Michael R said:

Hmmm. I noticed that it stopped working this morning (no updates). So I went into settings to check is something was messed up. Now when I try to save, I get this error:

Next version due out within several days. Should patch the settings issue and will take a look at any possible reason why the alert wasn't sent out.

[Michael R]

8 hours ago, Mike John said:

Next version due out within several days. Should patch the settings issue and will take a look at any possible reason why the alert wasn't sent out.

Thanks!

[Michael.J]

I'm having trouble reproducing the setting saving error locally. If someone who can reproduce can PM me forum login details to confirm my patch works?

I'm having trouble reproducing the setting saving error locally. If someone who can reproduce can PM me forum login details to confirm my patch works?

[Michael.J]

I've released a new version that fixes the save settings error and also adds hover profile card support to username links as well.

[Lord Balandar]

Hello! I have yet to test the functionality of sending birthday greetings, but I noticed when selecting groups to exclude and saving, those groups are not re-selected after going back into the settings.

[Michael.J]

12 hours ago, Lord Balandar said:

Hello! I have yet to test the functionality of sending birthday greetings, but I noticed when selecting groups to exclude and saving, those groups are not re-selected after going back into the settings.

Thanks for reporting, I've included a patch with the bug report if you wanted to patch this straight away. It should be saving the settings properly but just not displaying them in the settings page.

[Michael R]

Is there a way to run the app manually? For some reason there was no posting this morning.

[Michael.J]

9 hours ago, Michael R said:

Is there a way to run the app manually? For some reason there was no posting this morning.

ACP > System Tab > Advanced Configuration > Tasks > View Tasks.