One More Block - Suggestion Birthday Calendar

Post by **Phantomboy** » January 22nd, 2013, 12:08 pm

I noticed that our profiles contain a bit of information on us, including our date of birth. As it stands right now, besides manually scrolling though each profile and checking their displayed birthday there is no way (that I am aware of anyway) to see who's birthday is on the brink of occurring. My idea mainly is to include a calendar of sorts, listed somewhere on the forum and displays all users Birthday in an orderly manner.

I am unsure what the actually technology for such a feature entails and if something like this is even possible on our forum, however I thought it was worth mentioning.

Post by **Wowfunhappy** » January 22nd, 2013, 12:11 pm

Would be cool, but I don't know how to do that.

Miniike · Post by **Miniike** » January 22nd, 2013, 1:00 pm

Wowfunhappy wrote:Would be cool, but I don't personally know how to do that.

[Wah wah wah wah]

This would be purty cool though.

Wazi · Post by **Wazi** » January 22nd, 2013, 6:56 pm

Wowfunhappy wrote:Would be cool, but I don't know how to do that.

Then why not make a list of birthdays in order and put it in a thread?

Ex.

Jan 6: Waffelman
Feb 8: AdNumberz
Dec 12: TunaMan

Etc. Etc. Etc.

Post by **Phantomboy** » January 22nd, 2013, 7:20 pm

Wazi wrote:Then why not make a list of birthdays in order and put it in a thread?

Ex.

Jan 6: Waffelman
Feb 8: AdNumberz
Dec 12: TunaMan

Etc. Etc. Etc.

Well, We could do. However the technical nightmare is present in that to obtain all of that information would be extremely difficult and the result may be quite messy unless you go by a month bases. Also, updating your list after each new member would also be quite an issue. I made my suggestion on the assumption that the forums database provides all users information in a bulk list, to be referenced and pulled from in code, if this is not the case, manually doing something like this would be hectic.

Semesto · Post by **Semesto** » January 22nd, 2013, 7:33 pm

Too bad, it's a great idea!

Post by **bionicnacho** » January 22nd, 2013, 8:06 pm

Lots of forums have a "Birthdays" Section like on the foot of the home page. Like...

"It is: bionicnacho, Semesto, Phantomboy and WowFunHappy's birthday today!"
or
"Today's Birthdays: bionicnacho, Semesto, Phantomboy, Wowfunhappy"

And if it is nobody's birthday the box will just not show.

winningkill · Post by **winningkill** » February 2nd, 2013, 7:14 pm

Add mine!

April 14th

EyceKubes · Post by **EyceKubes** » February 6th, 2013, 12:06 pm

bionicnacho wrote:Lots of forums have a "Birthdays" Section like on the foot of the home page. Like...

"It is: bionicnacho, Semesto, Phantomboy and WowFunHappy's birthday today!"
or
"Today's Birthdays: bionicnacho, Semesto, Phantomboy, Wowfunhappy"

And if it is nobody's birthday the box will just not show.

Didn't voxelus' forums have that feature?

Post by **bionicnacho** » February 6th, 2013, 3:09 pm

EyceKubes wrote:Didn't voxelus' forums have that feature?

Not sure... I never really got on the Voxelus forums.

Saw the message on the Atmosphir forums about Voxelus and signed up there, but never came back until later when i saw the thread about OMB.

jhjoseph91 · Post by **jhjoseph91** » March 25th, 2013, 8:14 pm

winningkill wrote:Add mine!

April 14th

Atleast it isn't 13. lol.

ElectroYoshi · Post by **ElectroYoshi** » April 18th, 2013, 5:57 pm

OK, I'll bite. My birthday is May 11th.

:3

Post by **Sebastian Lawe** » April 18th, 2013, 11:50 pm

Its actually quite a simple concept to implement (assuming one can program it for this site). When the birthday display loads, it can sift through the user database finding both the username and associated birth date. Once that is complete, it will check each birth date against the current date. Any user with a birth date matching the current date will be listed as a person currently having a birthday. Once the list of current birthdays is assembled, the birthday display will show the list of people who currently have a birthday.
If throughout this process no birthdays are found, the display will be a blank, empty, nonexistent slate.

Each time a page with this birthday display is loaded, this process will occur again.

EyceKubes · Post by **EyceKubes** » April 19th, 2013, 10:36 am

Sebastian Lawe wrote:Its actually quite a simple concept to implement (assuming one can program it for this site). When the birthday display loads, it can sift through the user database finding both the username and associated birth date. Once that is complete, it will check each birth date against the current date. Any user with a birth date matching the current date will be listed as a person currently having a birthday. Once the list of current birthdays is assembled, the birthday display will show the list of people who currently have a birthday.
If throughout this process no birthdays are found, the display will be a blank, empty, nonexistent slate.

Each time a page with this birthday display is loaded, this process will occur again.

DO IT! DO IT NAO! haha I would love to see this implemented on the forums.

Post by **Sebastian Lawe** » April 19th, 2013, 5:02 pm

EyceKubes wrote:DO IT! DO IT NAO! haha I would love to see this implemented on the forums.

I could potentially code it, but that depends on if the site itself is based on asp.net or php.

Lysander789 · Post by **Lysander789** » April 25th, 2013, 1:05 am

Implementing a Birthday Calendar is a fantastic idea. But it can still be a technical mess if poorly implemented.

Miniike · Post by **Miniike** » April 28th, 2013, 2:24 pm

I think you guess are missing the entire essence and aura of One More Block:

Wowfunhappy not being able to do stuff.