Great idea. I noticed a request to unsticky topics after X days. If you're looking to expand it, that's something you could consider ;)

Yeah!...that's the one I'm looking for! http://www.ronaldreagan.com/forums/i.../thumbs_up.gif

I like my RSS bots, but the clutter of the threads they post is annoying to me and my members.

I know that there already is a feature that will close the threads posted by the bots after so many days, but having them deleted if not reponded to would be awesome! http://www.ronaldreagan.com/forums/i...es/biggrin.gif

Installed, this was perfect for a couple of trolls that used to revive old threads just for fun.

Did 1.0 work with 3.6.0?
I see now I need to be at least 3.6.1, I don't want to upgrade at this point.

all ok with 3.6.4, thanks.

IM having a problem running this script:

vB 3.6.4

heres a suggestion for upcomming releases. add a user option when the user creats the thread they have the option to have it close afterX days. instead of having it done by admin.

Negative on that idea.....

vBulletin (apache) needs permission to write to the vBulletin directory.

reserved for future use by new developmets :)

only a question:

it's possible make that an admin or a (category) mod post automatically with a default message that to inform the reason of the lock? i think this is a better way than "only" lock a thread ...

take this with a suggestion :) always if it is possible to make this ;)

Working great on 3.6.4 for me... This is exactly what I needed!

Not working with 3.6.4 for me...:confused:
I cmod every file and folder in both includes, and cron directory...
error uploading file to writing......
so...as far as vb being able to write to the "vb directory" not sure what that is..
Unless he was talking about the root...where the forum is installed, in that case, all folders are cmod 777..
nothing works....error uploading file to writing......
even if you try to manually import the file from /includes/xml/vox_close_old_threads_1[1].1.xml
what next? :confused:

anyone??

You need to chmod 777 the cron directory as it needs to write to it. Once installation is complete, you can chmod the cron directory back to 755 or 644...

Thanks...
but as I already stated above " cmod every file and folder in both includes, and cron directory...
error uploading file to writing......"

*Bump*
this is odd...
I did chmod everything using CPANEL in the file manager..
everything to 777...
still did not work..
so I thought "what the hell?"
so i went back with a ftp client, (wsftp) and did a chmod 777 and for some strange reason it worked that way...
usually if you try to cmod with an ftp tool it wont work or its temporal..
so thanks guys...
just remember that one if yall have the same issue, use and ftp tool direct to the folder in question to chmod.
Problem finally solved.

i say its solved..but does not appear to be working..
its intalled now, but when I checked the options in acp..
set to close threads 90 after last post...
went back to the forum for review, and the mod does not appear to be working...
No threads are closed at all.
any clue?
Thanks

Great mod,

can I make a few requests :)

1. different close period for different group users
i.e. All non stick post, posted by Admin in assigned forum (1, 2, 5, 10 ..) will be be close after X day after first post or last replỵ

............ by Super Mod ........ will be close after Y ....

............ by Mod ........ after Z day ........

............ by all other groups .... after XY day ....

2. Send notify PM/E-mail to the thread creator X day prior to closing. In the body should include the link to the thread.

That's all,

Thanks, once again great hack

That means you didn't really chmod to 777.

You should never use a web based file manager to modify permissions. It runs as a different user and will not have privileges to modify your files. That is why it never worked for you.

Using an ftp client or ssh client to change the permissions is the only way you should do it.

Next, in order for the threads to be closed, you have to run the scheduled job in the admin either by letting the cron run, or by manually running it.

it all works now, and finally started working finally.
Thanks...

this doesnt work for 3.6.0?

This works for 3.6.4

If allowed for the issuance want 3.6.4

Did nothing at first then I went into scheduled tasks and run the cron and all is great

Works on 3.6.4 no doubt

Thank you.

I installed it, but as some else said....


So please update your instructions uptop. It will avoid unexpected issue.
I am running vb 3.6.4 with vBadvanced CMPS v2.2.1 (vB 3.6) installed, just incase someone wanted to know...>> http://www.talkchite.com

Thanks for the suggestion, I've updated the instructions.

I thought having one xml file would be easier, but maybe I should repackage the mod as a zip file with a manual upload.

Lesson for today kids, read the thread before you install. :)

I figured that when I said, "[t]he installation process automatically creates a php file in the cron folder...". People would know that that folder needs to be writeable by the web server process.

I need something like this for one of my forum section but any way to make it work by minutes and not days?

thanks for any reply

Yes, it's possible to change the code and the scheduled task to use minutes, instead of days.

thank you for reply this solve a big problem in forum thanks

on my site i have a "daily topics" board where a new topic is made each day. would i be able to use this to close the topics at midnight so that no new posts could be added on the wrong days topic.

i understnd there is the option for close after 1 day but would that close it at 9am if it was started at 9am?

Yes, it would close the thread at 9am the following day.

You would need to modify this line:
to have threads close when you want, but then you run into timezone issues and when a day starts and ends for the server may differ from the visitors.

what would i edit it to to have them close at midnight GMT? my server is in uk and is on gmt time

checked...
Worked with 3.6.4 ...
But problem solved by CMOD for cron with 777 and after installing got the CMOD back normal

thanks man

keep on

hai

Would you make "Undo" feature in this hack?

Awesome, installed and working perfectly on vB 3.6.7 PL1 :up: ... I had some Permission Errors, when the cron job ran, but it was because I had to CHMOD some files, all was fixed and running now perfectly ...