vb.org Archive - PLS Help: How to add Scheduled Task to run Update User Titles and Ranks script when:

I have subscriptions in my forums for people that donate to the website. The subscriptions work fine but I have noticed that after the subscription ends the member is pulled from the "contributor group" but they still have a contributor title in their member name.

This is sure to cause confusion as their PM, Attachments, and PhotoPost limits are higher as a contributor, plus they have access to some "Members Only" forums.

So, what I need is a way to run a "Scheduled Task" to ping the "Update User Titles and Ranks" script that we have in the "Update Counters" area of the Admin CP.

Can someone advise how I might be able to add a task to do this and I assume there would be no problems with having the server do this at least once a day...

Thanks!

p.s. I did try VB.com but they said to try here:

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showt...38#post1073338

Now, until someone suggest how to do this I am going to disect the code here:

In /admincp I see the file /usertitle.php which has a section:

Code:

// ###################### Start do update #######################

if ($_POST['do'] == 'doupdate')

{



        $vbulletin->input->clean_array_gpc('p', array(

                'title'    => TYPE_STR,

                'minposts' => TYPE_UINT

        ));



        if (empty($vbulletin->GPC['title']))

        {

                print_stop_message('invalid_user_title_specified');

        }



        $db->query_write("

                UPDATE " . TABLE_PREFIX . "usertitle

                SET title = '" . $db->escape_string($vbulletin->GPC['title']) . "',

                minposts = " . $vbulletin->GPC['minposts'] . "

                WHERE usertitleid = " . $vbulletin->GPC['usertitleid'] . "

        ");



        define('CP_REDIRECT', 'usertitle.php?do=modify');

        print_stop_message('saved_user_title_x_successfully', $vbulletin->GPC['title']);

In Misc.php I find a few bits of code that must be related to this:

Code:

// ###################### Start user choices #######################

if ($_REQUEST['do'] == 'chooser')

{

        print_form_header('misc', 'updateuser');

        print_table_header($vbphrase['update_user_titles'], 2, 0);

        print_input_row($vbphrase['number_of_users_to_process_per_cycle'], 'perpage', 1000);

        print_submit_row($vbphrase['update_user_titles']);

Now, the server delivered HTML code for this MISC script that does the Update of User titles looks like this (copied from a right click of admin CP)

Code:

        <script type="text/javascript">

        <!--

        var SESSIONHASH = "";

        function set_cp_title()

        {

                if (typeof(parent.document) != 'undefined' && typeof(parent.document) != 'unknown' && typeof(parent.document.title) == 'string')

                {

                        parent.document.title = (document.title != '' ? document.title : 'vBulletin');

                }

        }

        //-->

        </script>

        <script type="text/javascript" src="../clientscript/vbulletin_global.js"></script>



</head>

<body style="margin:0px" onload="set_cp_title();">

<div class="pagetitle">Maintenance</div>

<div style="margin:10px">

<!-- END CONTROL PANEL HEADER -->





<!-- form started:6 queries executed -->

<form action="misc.php" name="cpform" method="post">

<input type="hidden" name="do" value="updateuser" />

<br />

<table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" border="0" align="center" width="90%" class="tborder">

<tr>

        <td class="tcat" align="center" colspan="2">

                <div style="float:right"><a class="helplink" href="#" onclick="js_open_help('misc', 'chooser', ''); return false;">Help <img src="../cpstyles/vBulletin_3_Default/cp_help.gif" alt="" border="0" title="Click for help on these options" style="vertical-align:middle" /></a></div>

                <b>Update User Titles and Ranks</b>

        </td>

</tr>

<tr valign="top">

        <td class="alt1">Number of users to process per cycle</td>

        <td class="alt1"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%"><tr valign="top"><td><input type="text" class="bginput" name="perpage" id="it_perpage" value="1000" size="35" dir="ltr" tabindex="1" /></td><td align="right" style="padding-left:4px"><a class="helplink" href="#" onclick="js_open_help('misc', 'chooser', 'perpage'); return false;"><img src="../cpstyles/vBulletin_3_Default/cp_help.gif" alt="" border="0" title="Click for help on this option" /></a> </td></tr></table></td>

</tr>

<tr>

        <td class="tfoot" colspan="2" align="center">        <input type="submit" class="button" tabindex="1" value="Update User Titles and Ranks" accesskey="s" />

        <input type="reset" class="button" tabindex="1" value=" Reset  " accesskey="r" />

</td>

</tr>

</table>

</form>

<!-- form ended: 6 queries executed -->

Note, I don't know java but it looks to be like this code is working with the java to do the work... if so, I guess I will never figure this out without some Java help!

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