Birthday Mod Screenshots

[RobDownSouth]

I want to make sure I have a good consensus for what needs to go into the Birthday Mod. I basically wrote it from scratch in PHP, to teach myself PHP. Below are some screenshots. If there are no changes, I will package for beta today.

First, I put a button on the bottom of the "Installed Mod settings and options" screen:


This brings up a Birthday Option menu:


You can do a lot here:

• Suppress user ages from displaying with names
• Supress the entire Birthday Category if no birthdays for a given date
• Modify both the Category Banner and the clickable Link ("Birthdays") text
• Hide the Birthday Category from guests
• Hide the Birthday Category completely

Example of birthdays with ages (no age displayed if user did not enter birth year):


Example of birthdays without ages:


You can change the Category text:


So that the Board Index looks like this:


When there are no birthdays (message configurable):


Alternatively, supress the entire birthday category when no birthdays:


Click on the Birthdays link and you get the list:


(The birthday list has a catchall line called "Unknown" following December birthdays, this can be supressed also).

Okay, what have I left out? I know the original Birthday mod had an option for top or bottom, but could not find a board where this was in use.

Any other features you want to see?

Anyone want to be a beta tester?
Rob

[Joseph Fung]

Yes - I want to see a better cake.  That one is ugly.  Other than that though - looks good

[John R]

You can count on me for Beta Testing, since that's what I do bext.  If it can be broken, I'll break it!

cheers.......

[Greg Robson]

Two things:

Grammer - Today's birthdays not Todays birthdays

The cake - you need to improve your cake making skills  

Apart from that it's a kick ass mod!

[Joseph Fung]

Two things:

Grammer - Today's birthdays not Todays birthdays

The cake - you need to improve your cake making skills  

Apart from that it's a kick ass mod!

Uhh...it is Todays birthdays - Today's would only be used if Today were a name, or if you were using it as a contractino for "Today is".  For posession in non-names, you don't use the '

[Greg Robson]

I think you'll find I'm right, see these results at Google http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=apostrophe+usage+today%27s

today's students

today's Standard English

today's world

today's society

today's business environment

and from one of the linked pages... http://dsc.dixie.edu/reber/Punctuation%20and%20Usage/Rules%20and%20Guides/Apostrophe.htm

The first (and most common) rule is to add an 's to the noun or pronoun which the writer is identifying as owning or possessing something. These are commonly added to singular nouns or indefinite pronouns:

I think I'm right!

[Joseph Fung]

I stand corrected - thank you

[RobDownSouth]

Okay I have created a modification.mod, modification.php and modification.txt file, all in accordance with the gospel according to St. Zef.

I am using Matt's new package manager to create the package, and it tells me it created okay, but when I try to apply the mod on a pristine board (fresh install plus Matt's package manager)  it gives me a "success" message but nothing changes.

What am I doing wrong? I built a directory tree off my yabbse/Packages directory i.e.
yabbse/Packages/Xbirthday/Sources
yabbse/Packages/Xbirthday/Packages

My "Directory to Pack" was Packages/Xbirthday
My "root directory" was blank
My "Filename of Package" was Xbirthday.mod.yp

Has anyone gotten to create and install a package using Matt's new package manager?

[Matt Siegman]

The directory path must be:
Packages/XBirthday
The root must be:
Packages/XBirthday

you gotta put the
modification. files in a subdirectory called Packages, so your files would be in
Packages/XBirthday/Packages

and it has to be modification.mod/php/txt

[Greg Robson]

Don't worry about it Joe - it's taken me 18 years to learn the English language and I still don't understand most of it  

By the way congratulations for passing the 2000 post mark!  

[RobDownSouth]

Happy Dance time! It worked! Thank you Matt!  

Now I got a package! I've installed it on two systems with no problems.

Anyone want to beta test for me just email me. General availability in about 2 days!

[rican5vl]

That looks good...
I reallly like it . In fact it was a great improvement from the yabb 1 gold mod.


I have a good addition.

Can you add something that will post next to birthdays...

BIRTHDAY TAURUS's

BIRTHDAY GEMINI's  So people can see that you know how girls and some guys like to see their zodiak sign!!!

That would be neat, but not priority...
NICE FREAKING JOB!!!

Rican

[RobDownSouth]

Okay Matt, I got a few bugs ironed out.

I want to make this available for public beta, but it seems I need a file called package.list on my board.

Is there any documentation for this or a file format I can use?

Rob

[Matt Siegman]

Email it to me and I will put it on my mod server, after I test it  Yes, this package.list file does exist, but it is a classified government project, and I don't want you to use it

[John R]

Having had the chance today, to Beta Test this Mod, I am happy to report that I was unable to break it in any way.  The install was flawless with the PacMan and once installed it looked and performed as advertised.

Godd, well-written Mod.......Congratulations Rob.

cheers.........