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.

[EricR]

Just wanted to say THANK YOU!

[BBF]

thanks for this mod

[Rapscallion]

Anyone able to confirm this works fine on 3.6.8?

Do I read this thread right in that it closes based on the date of the last post in the thread, and not the first post? If so, this is going to be very useful.

Rapscallion

[mhackl]

I've been wondering if this was the same modification as the one that cgsociety.org has on their site. If you look at the last post in the linked thread you'll see that it seems to automatically post to the thread with a notification of the topics closure.

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthre...7&page=5&pp=15




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[echamberlain]

Originally Posted by Rapscallion

Anyone able to confirm this works fine on 3.6.8?

Do I read this thread right in that it closes based on the date of the last post in the thread, and not the first post? If so, this is going to be very useful.

Rapscallion

It works on 3.6.8 and it will close threads based on either the thread creation date or the last post date.

[echamberlain]

Originally Posted by mhackl

I've been wondering if this was the same modification as the one that cgsociety.org has on their site. If you look at the last post in the linked thread you'll see that it seems to automatically post to the thread with a notification of the topics closure.

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This mod doesn't add a post to the closed thread. I figured the fact that the thread says that it is closed was sufficient notice.

[Fungsten]

It seems I can't unlock any of the threads that were closed. I uninstalled it and the threads were still locked. Tried changing the amount of time before closing and it still didn't work.

[carlosacgj]

this mod can close threads after X number of post?

[Desesperao]

Hi,

Sorry for my little English

I have installed this hack: "Automatically Close Old Threads After X Days" in a vBulletin 3.6.8 and doesn?t work.

I?m sure that y have installed correctly the hack but doesn?t work.

I have done what here is commented:

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

... but this hack doesn?t work. Please, I need your help. I have tried everything

Also I have verified that the file: "close_old_threads.php" has been created in the folder cron correctly

Thank?s

[Rapscallion]

Hmm - it works fine for me, and it's awesome! Just wish I'd done it before some thread necromancy that occurred of late.

Rapscallion