Crad
November 8th, 2011, 08:32 PM
if(date = Birthdate) // assignment operator
{
Display Cake Image
}
of course im thinkin in c++ here but seems pretty herp derp simple.
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and if you decide to change ur bday everday to get it, all he has to do is take it away from all of you :D
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this is also assuming its pretty easy to lift data off of vb pages (something i was never arsed to check :)) unless you lifted it straight out of the db, but now im just rambling and am goin to bed
That last sentence is most accurate. First thing I'd need to do is confirm whether or not I can use only the plugin system, or if I need to make template edits. In posts at least, this is made a little more complicated, since the postbit user section (the section with your username, avatar, join date, etcetera) isn't from the user table, but is copied data grabbed stored in the posts table.
I'd need to look into it further, but I am NOT going to write an additional SQL query per page load. If it turns out that the data isn't available when I need it, and I can't quickly add the column to a pre-existing query, then no dice. I do like this idea though, and it shouldn't be hard to set up.
And THEN it's as easy as:
if ($date == $users[$userid].birthDate) {
$postData .= "<img... />";
}
implying there is order to chaos lol
More accurately, it'd be when I'm bored of doing other stuff. It's nice moving from a large project to something small, that members actually notice, every now and then.
What would be hard is mucking around with vBulletin's internals to change how Birthdays are set up. I would be unable to come up with an estimate on this until I look into it further.