EXT: Birthday List¶

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EXT: Birthday List 1

Introduction 1

Users manual 1

Configuration 1

Introduction¶

This extension inserts an additional field in the table “fe_users” to hold the person's birthday. Because of limitations when using a TYPO3 date field the field type is string (varchar).

The plugin part displays a list with FE-user who celebrated their birthday some days ago or will celebrate it the next days. The time spans for past and future birthdays can be configured in the page's template. User's names are linked to their profile, therefore the newloginbox extension must be installed.

Users manual¶

Insert a new content element of type “plugin” and choose “Birthday List”. Insert into the field “startingpoint” the page(s) containing your FE-users.

Configuration¶

Because the database field holding the birthday is of type varchar you don't have any validation on the field. You may choose your own format containing numeric parts for day and month and according separators (e.g. 1976-13-2, 13.2.1976, 2/13/76). Be sure to always use the same format!

Now modify the template if necessary. The parameter mysql_datedescribes the format you have chosen for saving birthdays (for the examples used above: %y-%m-%d, %d.%m.%y, %m/%d/%y).

Constants:

plugin.tx_eubirthdays_pi1.PIDFEuser = 368 # The PID of the page containing the

# newloginbox_pi3 element

Setup:

plugin.tx_eubirthdays_pi1 {

future = 10 # days

past = 7 # days

mysql_date = %d.%m.%y # date format used for input

date_stdWrap.strftime = %d.%m. # date format used for output

today_stdWrap.wrap = <b>|</b> # actual birthdays are marked

tableParams = border=0 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0

append =

}

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