Thanks Amy. That's fixed it. I also like the more informative 'report' when running it manually.

Nope, I tried the cpanel set up, it keeps erroring out, so I will go manual for now, by the way Amy when I ran manual today, that member you saw yesterday, came up again today!

That don't seem right....LOL

USODJA, if you run it manually, you need to make sure it's at least 24 hours between runs. If you run it at 8pm one day and noon the next day, you are likely to see the same member.

;)

Amy

opps.....LOL

Spam them again....LOL

Oh well Will run tomorrow morning again, should be better by then!

Thanks :)

i have a problem when i run manageActivation.php i got i no

permission message...so what's wrong?

I don't know. Without a link to your forums or any idea where you put the file, I can't psychically debug your board.

Amy

Will this delete users that have changed their pwd or email but are already a registered user? Cause they get put back in that cat after they make a change like that. That could be bad. Especially if they have like 3000 posts or something.

D

finally i got that work

i open the manageActivation.php find

$pass = "password";

replace to

$pass = "";

and it works....... :banana:

i keep getting this email

i think i might be doing something wrong?

Looks like you are emailing the wrong template

that's not the email, that's what i get from the cron job

it's doing a lynx -dump www.ebslive.com/forums/manageAcitivation.php everyday at 5pm (GMT) and that's what it gets, but i was thinking if it was working, surely it would be logged it wouldn't it 0_o

was i meant to set it up it's own account or edit the php file or something?

amy?

sabre, I have a hunch you put the script in your admin directory. It doesn't belong there because we can't pass in the login and password there.

So how can I verify it works before I cron it?

I try running it in the browser and I get permission denied.

How can I check to see that the emails where sent.

Thanks

Nevermind, I found it!

this is a great hack i like as matter of fact i am just about to click the install button.
but i think it would be a great addon if you could lookup users who have not posted anything since registeration and delete them i am sure there is a way.
Thanks either way its a great hack even without it

Here is an idea if anyone wants to take it on to improve this hack abit. have it self powered by the message board it self. have it run throught he functions.php this way every time the board is accessed, the moded hack will do a time check to see if it when the admin wants it to run and also it it is a new day. If it is, it runs the hack.

Hi Amy,

(This is a great hack..... thanks.)

Would you help me make a change to the final step in this hack? Instead of deleting them all, we would rather dump them together into a separate usergroup ..... what would amount to a "dead" file for people with NO access -- and who wouldn't show up on our member list.

We banned someone 1-1/2 years ago who still keeps trying to sneak back in. He's tried dozens of fake names/accounts and gets other people (who are more knowledgeable) to help set up garbage identities for him or find ways to get past vB security. So at our site, we want to keep the information we get in the system from incomplete registrations.

Let me know if you need any other information to do this. And thanks, again, for the hack.

Cheers,

Talis.

got it to work by taking out password thing

i get a blank page when i run this on 2.3.0, any1 else duplicating?

Hi,

Sorry to be a pain could someone tell me what I need to input in the Command to run in cPanl / Cron so it does this for me?

Many thanks :)

Yes it will. While it is an extremely useful hack it does cause me much extra work when long serving users change their email address. If someone has been registered more than 10 days and they change their email address and don't respond to the verification email before the next cron run then their profile is deleted automatically. What this generates is numerous complaints from long serving users who suddenly can't log in or when they eventually try to reply to the verification email they can't get anywhere with it.

Is there any way to change the hack so that it only applies to new registrations or else looks up the join date and handles the verification differently?

i with you on this Capt PPRuNe
.....


this would be nice and make the script much more usable .

i can see the select statement :




what part of it would need to be changed to make the select
only include users that registered 10 days or less ago ....


this would help make it complete

Indeed, also getting a blank page in v2.3.0.

I tried clearing out the password field but it didn't solve the problem.

wow thanx

Blank pages after hack installations usually indicates template problems. Make sure:
1- You installed the hack templates correctly.
2- Template names are exact (it is CASE SENSITIVE!) and no trailing space at the end.
3- If you have more than 1 template sets, hack templates should be installed to ALL template sets.

Hope this helps..

btw. while creating templates do not include ".txt" in the template name.

eg. Template name is "ActivationEmailSubject", not "ActivationEmailSubject.txt"