This plugin handles giving out gifts to players when they join on certain types of days:
For any event an announcement can optionally be made to all players. For instance, for their birthday you might configure a message letting everyone know its their birthday. Gifts can optionally be received after an event should the player miss logging on. You can configure any number of items to give to a player and each item can have any number of enchantments. Items are given when the player logs on.
Safeguards are in place to keep a player from changing their birthday to get additional gifts and to keep announcements from occurring too frequently. Even if the player changes their configured birthday to another date they will not receive another gift till the following year.
GiftEvents is using McStats to collect some data such as operating system, java version, Amount of players and some more.
You can learn more about it here.
You can disable it in the config file in the plugin directory.
The are a few options in the config file, but most modifications take place in the events file. Both contains plenty of comments and examples to help you get started configuring events.
When configuring items use either the Minecraft item id number or a name as it appears in the Bukkit Material class documentation. For enchantments you can again use a numerical enchantment id or the enchantment's name in the Bukkit Enchantment class documentation. In case of spawn eggs use 383 as ID and the entity ID as damage value. All entity types can be found in the official Minecraft wiki.
When testing a configuration use the "/events reload" command to check for errors without needing to restart the server.
The permissions are very simple and allow you restrict access for certain users:
