Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Automatically Close Old Threads After X Days

This product will automatically close threads. Administrators have the option of setting the number of days until a thread closes, including or excluding sticky threads, and including or excluding forums by ID.

Threads can be closed X days after the thread was created or X days after the last post.

See this product in action on the Voxilla Forums.

Installation

Close Old Threads installs from a single XML file, no other file uploads are necessary.

The installation process automatically creates a php file in the cron folder, therefor the cron folder must be writeable by vBulletin.

You may need to chmod the includes/cron folder to 777 before installation and back (note your settings) after installation is complete.

The installer then creates a daily cron job.

Close Old Threads is inactive upon installation and must be configured and enabled from the vBulletin Options menu. See the attached screen shot for a sample.


Update

1.1 Administrators can now select all forums, or a subset of forums for inclusion or exclusion. The previous version only had options for all forums and an exclusion list.

[echamberlain]

I figured that when I said, "[t]he installation process automatically creates a php file in the cron folder...". People would know that that folder needs to be writeable by the web server process.

[redspider]

I need something like this for one of my forum section but any way to make it work by minutes and not days?

thanks for any reply

[echamberlain]

Yes, it's possible to change the code and the scheduled task to use minutes, instead of days.

[redspider]

Originally Posted by echamberlain

Yes, it's possible to change the code and the scheduled task to use minutes, instead of days.

thank you for reply this solve a big problem in forum thanks

[mat.knott]

on my site i have a "daily topics" board where a new topic is made each day. would i be able to use this to close the topics at midnight so that no new posts could be added on the wrong days topic.

i understnd there is the option for close after 1 day but would that close it at 9am if it was started at 9am?

[echamberlain]

Yes, it would close the thread at 9am the following day.

You would need to modify this line:

. ' AND ' . \$timestamp . ' <= ' . intval(TIMENOW - (60 * 60 * 24 * \$vbulletin->options['setting_vox_cot_days']))

to have threads close when you want, but then you run into timezone issues and when a day starts and ends for the server may differ from the visitors.

[mat.knott]

what would i edit it to to have them close at midnight GMT? my server is in uk and is on gmt time

[alawee.blawee]

checked...
Worked with 3.6.4 ...
But problem solved by CMOD for cron with 777 and after installing got the CMOD back normal

thanks man

keep on

[nureeves]

hai

Would you make "Undo" feature in this hack?

[Dannyloski]

Awesome, installed and working perfectly on vB 3.6.7 PL1 :up: ... I had some Permission Errors, when the cron job ran, but it was because I had to CHMOD some files, all was fixed and running now perfectly ...