Okay I have it up. It is there and running. When I go to move a thread over to the archive (testing it out lol) there isn't an option to move the thread over there.

I am a newbie to VB can't you tell :P

when?
well you should move it when it's closed and never needed anymore :)

the option is within your AdminCP when you have installed everything right.

It is there yah!!! But I am getting a page cannot be displayed when I click on the links?

I am amazed I got it there only being doing php for a week hehehe!

Now I am getting a Page Not Found. I think I am missing something hmmm...

Installed and seams to work but i can't edit the permissions. Their names are showing up but there ar no radiobuttons etc.

@mistyl: have you uploaded the files correctly?

@NuclioN: hmm, i think it's the same bug, as in my faster change of forumpermissions hack.
Your php-version is too old i think, ask your host to upgrade to the newest one this should solve the problem

PHP/4.1.2 Xenon. Maybe we must upgrade. Tnx.

yes, it seems to happen with all php 4.1.x versions...
i knew it from my other hack...

you can use the archiv also, just the permission system does not work with php 4.1

Hm..it seems the host/provider has a balanced package that he will not upgrade for now. :(

Is there a workaround to let the permissions work?

no, sorry haven't had time to write one

That's to bad. It looks if moderators can archieve postings and they show up in the showarchiv.php, but the admin can't see this submission nor can alter it. I don't know if there are members who can see and archieve but it would be great if this could be controled somewhere.

It is working now! I coverted my first thread! But when I click on the link that say Show All Archives it doesn't show the threads contain in there.

http://www.divamoms.com/forums/showarchiv.php

Also is there anyway to get the Archive on the forum home?

@mistyl: whenever you provide an url to your board to show something be sure it's opened to guest, or give a test account or we can't help :)

question2: just add a link tho showarchiv.php on the forumhome template.

@Nuclion: hmm, you must have made an mistake, normally just admiins can create archives, that's why archiv.php is in admin-cp...

Excellent hack. Just what I was looking for.

Clicks install.

One question where is this located in the Archive templates?

Extreme .NET Forums > Archiv > All Archives

I want to change Archiv to Archive.

Uninstalled it for now. I archive a forum and all is ok. The per-page links are ok. As soon as I archive a second forum and head into that archive the first page shows the correct per-page links for that archive, but, if you click on the link to page 2 it takes you to page 2 of the whole archive. It doesn't seem to build multi-page links per forum archive but instead makes them for the whole archive and sets them in each. To see what I mean go to:

http://visualbasicforum.com/showarchiv.php

click on ADO.net archive. Then click at bottom of page click one of the per-page links. It will show posts from ASP.net the other forum I archived. If you want to view the rest of the ADO.net archived threads you have to click through all the links until you get back to them.

This is still a great hack and does just what I want, but, I can't use it as it is now. Once I archive all my forums it would be insane for a user to be able to navigate each archived forum since the perpage links seem to link randomly by date rather than by forum.

I fixed this.

This line:
should be:
Now to start archiving all my old threads and removing forums that I have closed after I archive them.

One more question. Could you add the feature to archive a forum by using the forum ID?
I want to archive all threads in a few of my forums and doing by date doesn't get all the posts. I would like to be able to just put a forum id in and have it do it that way then I know I get everything. This will also archive orphaned threads left behind that are tied to an ID of a removed forum.

@AWS: Thanks, that bug comes with version3, i've forgotten to change the pagenavlink here thanks :)

also it should be that:[high]* Xenon updates file :)
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you have to edit showarchiv.php the function makearchivnav($archivid=0, $forumid=-1, $title="") :)

it's already there, there is a forumchooser code when converting threads, no need for an id here :)

I see that. The ability to put in a forum id would be good also.
If you remove a large forum like I did, 50,000+ posts, more than likely vbulletins script will time out and all posts won't be removed. They are still in the db tied to an id, but, since the forum is no longer there it won't show in the dropdown box.
If we are able to input an id to the missing forum we could archive those old posts and remove then from the db.
This would be very helpful to not only archive these posts, but also remove them altogether.

hmm, i can give you the code :)

open archiv.php and replace this:
with this:this should work..

Works great. I'm archiving the orphaned threads that vbulletin didn't remove when I removed the forums. Great work.

np

you're welcome :)

I am able to archive one or two threads then I recieve this error:

Database error in vBulletin Control Panel 2.2.9:

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mysql error number: 1062

Date: Thursday 09th of January 2003 03:07:14 AM
Script: http://www.disboards.com/admin/archiv.php
Referer: http://disboards.com/admin/archiv.php?action=chooser&s=

Any clues?

hmm, seems like a problem with your DB.

which MySSQL version is running?
the problem is, id 13 is tried to be inserted twice, which is impossible, because the code has this:
which makes shure, that the inserting id does not exist before inserting..

try to delete the table archiv, and recreate it, maybe it could help

It seems to work now. :) How can i let moderators archive threads into it, by putting a link in the page nav?

hmm, it's not tested, but if you copy archiv.php from your admin directory into the mod dir and add the links to the pagenav it should work.....

What will happen when VB3 is released? Will this hack cause problems or anything?

I would have thought it won't be compatible but vb3 already has it's own archive system :p

- miSt

@Mist: you can't compare, vb3's archivesystem is just for Searchengines, it doesn't Compress anything as far as i know.

@L-Mane: Nobody could tell, because i havn't tested vb3 yet....
But it's an Addon, so it should work withouth problems, at least the old Archives should stay ok.
The action to convert new Threads into archives could perhaps make problems, i don't know how the db structure has changed.
I will surely make it vb3 compatible when i have enough time for it..

Oh i see - well it still looks nice :p

Great addition. The only thing that's strange is the connection time out message when i make an archive of a thread with a certain amount of pages.

hmm, i think this is a specific issue...
perhaps your timelimit is set to low....

have you tried to copy this thread into another forum?
i'd bet it would also bring up an error then....

Got it figured out! Thank you!

:)
[high]* Xenon enjoys to hear that[/high]

I have this working finally...
The only problem I have now is speed, it takes several minutes to archive each thread even when the board load is low.. it will take weeks to archive everything I need too!

Ok I got that one figured out! I increased the script time out in php.ini and optimized the database, it's flying now!
This is awesome xenon

:)
good to hear everything works at your board :)

A tip for anyone using xenon's great hack. Several times now while trying to archive a large board I started to recieve errors. The control panel would just go to a "page could not be displayed error. Each time I did a repair and optimize on the database and it worked much better after.

just one quick question:
- when i use the hack to archive threads - will the posts (that will be archived) be deleted from the searchindex?

i have the problem, that my searchindex is too big, and causes errors sometimes, because it's a high traffic board...

if you delete the original threads after archiving (it's an option while archiving ;)) then it will delete them from the searchindex.

hint:
also, if you get problems with the searchengine more often, increase the minimum word length and reindex it, that can help you :)

wow - thanks for the quick answer! https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2003/02/4.gif

:) that's good!

i've done this two times - but 12,4M rows are still too much...