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dartho

11-10-2006 02:04 AM

CRON the enabling/disabling of a plugin

How could I set up a plugin to be automagically enabled/disabled in certain days/times?

dartho

11-14-2006 02:32 AM

Anyone? Bueller?

dartho

10-27-2007 01:07 AM

I've come back to this. I'm still looking for a way to schedule the activation of a plugin..

I've tried creating a PHP file which toggles the "active" status of a plugin directly in the database - but this seems to have no effect.

Any other suggestions where I may look would be appreciated.

Thanks

Marco van Herwaarden

10-27-2007 07:44 AM

did you also update the datastore?

dartho

10-27-2007 09:59 AM

um, no - I didn't. I'll go see if I can work it out now - any further guidance appreciated

Thanks!

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OK- I had a look, and on the face of it - it seems too hard for my puny intellect to grasp.

I guess I could go with modifying the plugin so it's execution is dependent on say the existence of a flag file and cron the creation/deletion of the flag file as opposed to enabling/disabling the plugin itself...

Edit: works a treat!

|Jordan|

02-06-2008 06:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dartho (Post 1369617)

Any chance you can release it?

dartho

02-07-2008 12:05 AM

What I did was this:

Edit the plugin code and add the following:

Code:

$filename = "/path/to/forum/plugin.go";

if (file_exists($filename)) { 





PLUGIN CODE





}

and then create 2 CRON jobs (I did it via cpanel) with the following as the command:
1.

Code:

date>/path/to/forum/plugin.go

and scheduled it to run when I wished to enable the plugin

2.

Code:

rm /path/to/forum/plugin.go

and scheduled it to run when I want the plugin disabled

You could probably create a php file and use vBulletin's Scheduled Tasks
to do the CRON for you. It ain't pretty, but t works

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