Automatic Birthday PM?

[Alan Vende]

Forum URL: psychic-psyghtings.proboards.com

Would it be possible to code an automatic PM that sends to members on their birthdays?

If so, how would you go about this?

Thanks!

[Former Member]

I'm almost positive that PMs have to be sent manually.

[Alan Vende]

There's one for a welcome PM, so I didn't know if one could be programmed for birthdays. Thanks, @vip!

[Craig]

To the best of my knowledge, that wouldn't be possible.

[Alan Vende]

I just thought it would, Craig, because of the automatic Welcome PM. That's what made me think of an automatic birthday one.

Thank you

[Wormopolis]

Although not a PM, you COULD have it pop-up a birthday message to someone and use a cookie to store they have seen it

[Alan Vende]

Wormopolis: So it could be a popup box? That'd be great! Thank you for that, Wormopolis.

Could this be used for it?

<script>
function our_function(){
alert("This is my text that displays on the popup");
}
</script>
<input type="button" value="Important Message" onclick="our_function()" />


Or is it something else?

[Wormopolis]

well yes, you COULD go with an alert... but experience tells me people would rather have something they could style themselves and add whatever content to. then use the built-in dialog function to display it.

[Alan Vende]

Could you explain that a bit more? What do you mean style themselves? The only problem I see, now, with the above code is it doesn't have a variable or what have you to do it only on the birthday of the members.

[Wormopolis]

pb_data contains the birthday of the user. if you look at the page source you should see it in there. you could have it check a members birthday from that, see if its the same as the day, see if a cookie value has already been set (so they wont keep getting the alert every pageload), then have it display some HTML onto the page that the admin customized in a plugin setting.

[Alan Vende]

So a Plugin has to be created for it?

Thank you!

[Wormopolis]

Yeah thats what I was alluding to as a way to make it happen if admins dont agree to making it an actual feature.

[Alan Vende]

Would you be able to have this be a Plugin Request? Or should I go into the Plugin Request area and put in a separate thread?

[Wormopolis]

I thought you were writing plugins? I could help you write it if you want.

[Alan Vende]

Sorry, I was thinking of feature request, not Plugin request. And I am. And yeah, I would like that; thank you for the offer.

I was on a social-network-type website creator that had the code that I put above, and it was a popup box. That's why I thought that that could be used.

<script>
function our_function(){
alert("Happy birthday, $[user.name]! Hope it's a great one!");
}
</script>
<input type="button" value="Important Message" onclick="our_function()" />


Where's the page for the PB Data? You talked about checking the source, but I can't access the page. Or am I thinking wrong?