[Andreas]

Originally Posted by nexialys

1- in the Edit Forum, admin can set the forum to be opened at X hour and closed at X hour. (if set to 0, the forum is not touched by the cron job)
... that's it for the forum...
2- the cron job #1 verify what forum is to be re-opened (at X hour) and open it.
3- the cron job #2 will do the opposite, close the forum that exceed the hour limit...

I'ts moreless the same like I got running:
In forummanager, one can define a time interval when the forum shoul be open, as well as an option to decide if threads should be physically deleted or not.
The cronjob runs at opening/closing times and does the job.

when the forum is closed for that feature, a message to invite people to come between the two hours limits is displayed... etc etc etc...

This is currently not a feature, but might be worth looking into, although I don't think it is that necessary as the forum is hidden anyway in off-times.