Joomlander.Net

This is a very fine plugin. Just another question, in my notifying mail it always says:

Birthday from 1900-12-12 to 1900-12-12

even if there hasnt been a change to Birthday. Birthday is my only Date Field…may be this could be fixed, though its better to have more then less information…

That's very curious. Not sure I can explain it without getting in to debug it myself. I saw a similar thing happen in an early version of the plug-in that included checking the avatar field. Then I realized the avatar (thumbnail) was updated using a different mechanism and doesn't get sent to the extension with the other profile parameters. So there is an exclusion for it and the plug-in should not send an email if someone changes their avatar. If you need to be notified of that, I believe there is a CB feature that does that.

As far as date entries go, the standard ones are excluded also but for obvious reasons. The registration date should never change and the last updated date changes every time the user saves changes. So I don't believe any date fields were tested. I'll look into it from that perspective. I suppose this could be problematic if a date field is allowed to be NULL. I don't do any explicit checks for NULL, and I am not sure what happens if you compare a non-NULL value with a NULL value. One would hope they would simply not be equal and that comparing NULL with NULL would yield equality. The problem is likely something like this that I overlooked.

Thanks for the heads up.

Thank you for answering to all my questions. In this case just one more thing, its not just showing exactly "Birthday from 1900-12-12 to 1900-12-12" everytime, but it shows the actual individual entered date of Birth in each mail, even if its not changed, if this affects your thoughts…

I see the problem. It is caused by the way you enter the date versus how it is stored. When it is entered, it appears as mm/dd/yy (or whatever date format you setup in the CB configuration), whereas when it is stored it appears as a UNIX date/time string (YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS), So they will NEVER match. I will need to modify the plug-in to check for date fields and convert the entered date to UNIX time format before comparing.

I should have this fixed by the end of today sometime and will release v1.1 after I fix it.

Thats a fast service for an cool plugin – thanks for it!

MacJoomla

The problem was not at all what I thought. CB stores dates in YYYY-MM-DD format all the time. The dates being compared seemed identical, but for some unexplained reason they didn't compare that way. So I had to make a special case for dates and convert them to the same exact format before comparing them, which works. Very bizarre.

Anyway, you can download v1.1 here.