Version: 1.01, by sabret00the
Developer Last Online: Apr 2010
Version: 3.0.7
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Released: 04-28-2005
Last Update: 05-09-2005
Installs: 6
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Is in Beta Stage
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WHAT:
This hack will create threads at regualar intervals in the forum you specify and with the body text you specify on a thread by thread basis
WHY:
Because your forums are probably dead or you just wanna make sure you continue in the persut of quality topic-specific threads
WHEN:
Whenever you set it to because we're cron like that
WHERE:
In your forums
HOW:
Easily, theirs like one file edit and that's one of the files this comes with, we call it super plug-in power-o
ANYTHING ELSE:
Yes if jilly didn't make the request i would've never got round to spending the few hours it took to create this, though i got distracted alot and so it took me like 5 hours over 3 weeks.
yup you gotta add the cron through your admincp. also you need to make the specifications via your vbulletin options, their will be a group called threadBOT.
as for making adding a cron in your admincp;
scheduled tasks -> add new scheduled task -> <look below>
Title: threadBOT
Day of the Week: * (unless you have a specific day you want it to run on)
Day of the month: * (unless you're setting it to run once a month)
Hour: 17 (which will run it as five o'clock pm everyday)
Minute: *
Log Entries: Yes
Filename: ./includes/cron/threadBOT.php
threadBOT Name
Please enter the username that the threadBOT will post under.
This should be someone's existing username? Like if it will post as me, enter my username, or if I am going to give it it's own entity, create a username for it?
threadBOT Feeding Permissions
Please enter the forumid of a forum where only people you want to be able to feed the threadBOT have permission to view and post.
I am not sure exactly what this means - does this mean the way I will 'feed' it is by having a forum, say a private forum, where I will post up the info that is going to be reposted later by threadbot?
threadBOT Name
Please enter the username that the threadBOT will post under.
This should be someone's existing username? Like if it will post as me, enter my username, or if I am going to give it it's own entity, create a username for it?
yup it needs to be an existng username in the database (like yours), so you can't just make one up on the spot unless it actually has an account.
Quote:
Originally Posted by jilly
threadBOT Feeding Permissions
Please enter the forumid of a forum where only people you want to be able to feed the threadBOT have permission to view and post.
I am not sure exactly what this means - does this mean the way I will 'feed' it is by having a forum, say a private forum, where I will post up the info that is going to be reposted later by threadbot?
what it means is, if you have a private forum that only you can post in, you'd put it's number in there, the reason being is that the threadbot will use the permissions of that forum to see who can and can't feed it. i.e. if you set it to a forum that all your members can post in, then all your members can feed the threadBOT, however if it's a forum that only staff can post in, then only staff can feed the threadBOT.
arghhh i'm crap at explaining things so forgive me
That's okay, if you want, once we figure it out I can write up some instructions - THAT I am good at
i'd more than appreciate that
Quote:
Originally Posted by jilly
Okay, how do I get the actual questions that threadbot will post loaded?
And how do I specify what forum he puts them into when the cron runs?
if you check the feed_threadBOT.php it should have the forum in the top right of the form in the drop down menu and you put the questions in as if you were making a normal thread.
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