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.

[R M 4 E V E R]

hmmm

so just chmod that dir with 777

i'll try

thanks for fast support

[R M 4 E V E R]

that worked very well

i'll translate this product to arabic and post it in arabic vBulletin web sites with ur copyright not removed

installed hit and product nominated for MOTM

thanks again

[KURTZ]

reserved for future use by new developmets

only a question:

it's possible make that an admin or a (category) mod post automatically with a default message that to inform the reason of the lock? i think this is a better way than "only" lock a thread ...

take this with a suggestion always if it is possible to make this

[michael_S]

Working great on 3.6.4 for me... This is exactly what I needed!

[osso12]

Originally Posted by michael_S

Working great on 3.6.4 for me... This is exactly what I needed!

Not working with 3.6.4 for me...
I cmod every file and folder in both includes, and cron directory...
error uploading file to writing......
so...as far as vb being able to write to the "vb directory" not sure what that is..
Unless he was talking about the root...where the forum is installed, in that case, all folders are cmod 777..
nothing works....error uploading file to writing......
even if you try to manually import the file from /includes/xml/vox_close_old_threads_1[1].1.xml
what next?

[osso12]

anyone??

[michael_S]

You need to chmod 777 the cron directory as it needs to write to it. Once installation is complete, you can chmod the cron directory back to 755 or 644...

[osso12]

Originally Posted by michael_S

You need to chmod 777 the cron directory as it needs to write to it. Once installation is complete, you can chmod the cron directory back to 755 or 644...

Thanks...
but as I already stated above " cmod every file and folder in both includes, and cron directory...
error uploading file to writing......"

[osso12]

*Bump*
this is odd...
I did chmod everything using CPANEL in the file manager..
everything to 777...
still did not work..
so I thought "what the hell?"
so i went back with a ftp client, (wsftp) and did a chmod 777 and for some strange reason it worked that way...
usually if you try to cmod with an ftp tool it wont work or its temporal..
so thanks guys...
just remember that one if yall have the same issue, use and ftp tool direct to the folder in question to chmod.
Problem finally solved.

[osso12]

i say its solved..but does not appear to be working..
its intalled now, but when I checked the options in acp..
set to close threads 90 after last post...
went back to the forum for review, and the mod does not appear to be working...
No threads are closed at all.
any clue?
Thanks