Automatic Birthday PM?

[Alan Vende]

Jan 28, 2015 16:28:53 GMT -8 jrryan said:

Jan 28, 2015 15:56:10 GMT -8 Alan Vende said:

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?

If memory serves me correct you can't see it at all. Many have made a request to allow a Happy Birthday message in many forms for single members and it is on a request now and hasn't been implemented so far. What would be nice is to be able to say Happy Birthday in the Welcome Header like V4 did but currently that isn't possible. You can use the birthday link to make each day's list of birthdays display but not a single member.

Thank you!

[Wormopolis]

check the source of the page when looking at it. firefox/chrome is ctrl-u. IE has a context menu to get to it. Then you kinda have to scroll through what comes up to look for what is being written to the page. one of the javascript global variables is called pb_data

[Alan Vende]

I couldn't see how to get to the page. I hovered over the pb_data and it wasn't a link. I also have a Mac, so would it be Command-U?

[Alan Vende]

Jan 28, 2015 18:25:41 GMT -8 jrryan said:

Jan 28, 2015 17:41:19 GMT -8 Wormopolis said:

check the source of the page when looking at it. firefox/chrome is ctrl-u. IE has a context menu to get to it. Then you kinda have to scroll through what comes up to look for what is being written to the page. one of the javascript global variables is called pb_data

So if one could make a javascript code to send a single PM to a person who has a birthday on such day then can you do the same to say happy birthday to the general forum to the same person/s?

I was just going to do a popup for a person, not the PM. I was mistaken when I thought that you could send an automatic PM to someone. Sorry for the confusion!

[Alan Vende]

Once it's created I'll ask Wormopolis if he'll be okay with me putting it into the Plugin Library. We'll see how it goes

[Pebble]

F12 > View source

EDIT : Sorry, only read to the bottom of page 1...

[Alan Vende]

On a Mac, Pebble, F12 turns up my volume. (Not trying to insult your intelligence.

[Pebble]

No idea on a mac, so I'll stay out of this one...

[Alan Vende]

I don't have an idea, either. Thank you for the help, Pebble!

[Alan Vende]

I think that Ricky said that putting 'hotkeys' for the Mac is on the dev's bucket list, though

[Pebble]

It's not a hot-key, it should be a standard way of viewing the source code for any web page. It's not proboards specific.
I think this should be a plugin request and see if someone takes it on ( or walks you through it, if they have a mac or know how one works).

[Wormopolis]

Jan 28, 2015 18:25:41 GMT -8 jrryan said:

Jan 28, 2015 17:41:19 GMT -8 Wormopolis said:

check the source of the page when looking at it. firefox/chrome is ctrl-u. IE has a context menu to get to it. Then you kinda have to scroll through what comes up to look for what is being written to the page. one of the javascript global variables is called pb_data

So if one could make a javascript code to send a single PM to a person who has a birthday on such day then can you do the same to say happy birthday to the general forum to the same person/s?

You cannot use javascript to send an actual PM to a person automatically.  you could fake a PM like the old "welcome PM" code used to do, but it wouldnt be real.  frankly a PM only has the advantage of still existing after the actual birthday.  I think this would be a great code for Alan to write up since its not overly complex to get all the pieces to work, but will provide some good learning experience along the way.  And you dont need MY permission to submit it to the library since it would be mostly your work.

Im going to move this to plugin development though since it is heading in that direction.

[Alan Vende]

Pebble: Thank you. I had a PC for the longest time, and it didn't occur to me that ProBoards only has things for the PC and such -- and that they have to get things for the Mac -- such as the Shift to select more than one board -- I tried that on a Mac and it didn't work.

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Jan 29, 2015 5:30:21 GMT -8 Alan Vende said:

Pebble: Thank you. I had a PC for the longest time, and it didn't occur to me that ProBoards only has things for the PC and such -- and that they have to get things for the Mac -- such as the Shift to select more than one board -- I tried that on a Mac and it didn't work.

An easy way to do it would be installing this: Happy Birthday.pbp (568 B)
Test it by changing your computers time to your birthday and refreshing your forum. (maybe takes 2-3 times before your browser will register your date change)
A simple, elegant popup.
Feel free to browse through the code and modify it or make your own.

[Lynx]

Alan Vende,

I found this that might help:

Every web browser will allow you to examine the source code of any website you visit.... ... Pressing ^ Ctrl + U will open the source code for the page you are viewing. This only ... Press ^ Ctrl + U (Windows, Linux) or ? Command + U (Mac).

I just did a Google search for viewing a web page source code on a mac.