yup you gotta add the cron through your admincp. also you need to make the specifications via your vbulletin options, their will be a group called threadBOT.

Is there instructions for this in the zip? I can't seem to find them :(

Nope .. 1st time with this hack

ok for the vboptions bit, a direct url would be http://www.yoursite.com/forums/admin...roup=threadbot

as for making adding a cron in your admincp;
scheduled tasks -> add new scheduled task -> <look below>
Title: threadBOT
Day of the Week: * (unless you have a specific day you want it to run on)
Day of the month: * (unless you're setting it to run once a month)
Hour: 17 (which will run it as five o'clock pm everyday)
Minute: *
Log Entries: Yes
Filename: ./includes/cron/threadBOT.php

click save and you're done.

ok, did you tick any of the tick boxes when you went to hack_install.php

Okay, when I go to this part in options:

threadBOT Name
Please enter the username that the threadBOT will post under.

This should be someone's existing username? Like if it will post as me, enter my username, or if I am going to give it it's own entity, create a username for it?


threadBOT Feeding Permissions
Please enter the forumid of a forum where only people you want to be able to feed the threadBOT have permission to view and post.
I am not sure exactly what this means - does this mean the way I will 'feed' it is by having a forum, say a private forum, where I will post up the info that is going to be reposted later by threadbot?

yup it needs to be an existng username in the database (like yours), so you can't just make one up on the spot unless it actually has an account.


what it means is, if you have a private forum that only you can post in, you'd put it's number in there, the reason being is that the threadbot will use the permissions of that forum to see who can and can't feed it. i.e. if you set it to a forum that all your members can post in, then all your members can feed the threadBOT, however if it's a forum that only staff can post in, then only staff can feed the threadBOT.

arghhh i'm crap at explaining things so forgive me :o

That's okay, if you want, once we figure it out I can write up some instructions - THAT I am good at :)

Okay, how do I get the actual questions that threadbot will post loaded?

And how do I specify what forum he puts them into when the cron runs?

i'd more than appreciate that :)

if you check the feed_threadBOT.php it should have the forum in the top right of the form in the drop down menu and you put the questions in as if you were making a normal thread.