Overhauled birthdays module

Thanks for your work!

I'll look at it as soon as I've finished the work on the new 5.x version. This saves us a lot of work, as we now don't need to convert the new 5.x version back to 4.7.x.

Hmmm... the new module does not contain the correct files. It only has a single file named birthdays-5.x-1.x-dev.tar-4

@ab4n: I think you're replying to the wrong issue here, because this one is about a patch for the 4.7.x-dev version.

You're talking about the 5.x-1.x-dev.tar.gz on the project page, if I'm not mistaken. That's actually a TAR file inside a GZ file. When you run 'tar -zxf filename.tar.gz' it wil automatically run GZ first and TAR after that, directly resulting in the files you need. But you only extracted the TAR from the GZ, therefore you also will have to unpack the TAR file you got from the first step.
I can confirm that it works here.

Is there a way to update the text on the Birthday that says "Nobody is having their birthday soon."

Especially if it is set only to show "Todays" birthdays and there is none - to say, "There are no Birthdays today."

I've applied your patch, together with some other fixes, to 4.7-dev.

Because 6.x has been released, and I don't have any experience with the 4.x branch of drupal, I dropped support for the 4.x version. It doesn't show up on the project page anymore, and I won't add new functionality to the module, unless someone else makes a patch.