Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Auto Delete/Move Thread After X days

What does this hack do ?
This is second version of Auto Delete/Move Hacks, this hack can delete the zero post threads that was created before X days in your specific forums or it can move the zero post threads to specific(Archive) through scheduled task, by defualt delete the zero post every ten days, sure you can change the period as you want,
this is where the Auto Delete After X Days comes in handy!

Features:

• Turn On/Off system "All system".
• Turn On/Off Move system.
• Turn On/Off Delete system.
• Specific forums "this hack will work on this forums only".
• Specific forums " Archive Forums".
• Protected Users.
• Delete Type (soft/hard).
• Created days.
• NO Code Modifications needed!

Install instructions:

1- Upload the file to forum/includes/cron.
2- Import the Product XML file through your Admincp.
3- Enjoy.

NOTE:
Do not forget to review the hacks options in vBulletin options under "Auto Delete/Move After X Days " to set it as you want, the defualt setting are:-
- Soft delete for the threads that have zero replay and created before 30 days ago.
- protected user that have id 1 & 2.
- it will running every ten days.
- check the attachments.


that's all
Any questions, comments, suggestions, pleaes let me know

Enjoy!

[AtoZ]

Anyone have this working in 3.7 or are there plans to update? Thanks.

[futuredood]

Originally Posted by AWJunkies

Works on 3.6.8 P2 when you create the task yourself cause he programed it all wrong for it to auto install.

Hi can you tell us more about how to get this to work, or where you found the answer? I installed it and need to know how to set up the cron job. Thanks.

[AtoZ]

futuredood, read back through the thread and you'll find the solution.

Originally Posted by voclain

All I did was make a NEW SCHEDULED TASK and had it point to .php file that I uploaded into the "CRON" folder.

[tekguru]

Working for me on vB 3.7.1PL2. All I needed to do was set up the CRON job and modify the cronautodelete.php setting from `replycount` = '0' to `replycount` >= '0' and it now archives my 'News' into 'Old News' - superb!

[AtoZ]

Originally Posted by tekguru

Working for me on vB 3.7.1PL2. All I needed to do was set up the CRON job and modify the cronautodelete.php setting from `replycount` = '0' to `replycount` >= '0' and it now archives my 'News' into 'Old News' - superb!

Excellent. Thanks for the info!

[StreetTriple]

hi there,
i've 3,6,8 patch level 2 and the mod not function...
i've tryed to run this query in mysql:

INSERT INTO " . TABLE_PREFIX . "cron (weekday,day,hour,minute,filename,loglevel,active,varname, volatile,product)) VALUES (-1, 10, 0, 'a:1:{i:0;i:0;}', './includes/cron/cronautodelete.php', 1, 'Auto Delete/Move  Thread After  per days')

but i've received this error:

query SQL:
INSERT INTO forum_vbcron( weekday,
DAY , HOUR , minute, filename, loglevel, active, varname, volatile, product )
VALUES ( -1, 10, 0, 'a:1:{i:0;i:0;}', './includes/cron/cronautodelete.php', 1, 'Auto Delete/Move Thread After per days'
)
Messaggio di MySQL:
#1136 - Column count doesn't match value count at row 1

PLEASE HELP ME!

[RayJohns]

Very handy, thanks. A couple of notes about installation. I'm running on 3.7.3 PL1. I moved the files to the proper locations, and imported the XML. However, I had to manually add a cron job in order to get it working. It appears there is install code in the package to install a cron job, but I don't think it worked (at least not on my vb). I could be wrong, but after uploading the .php file and importing the XML, I did not see a scheduled task listed in the cron job section.

For anyone who has the same problem, here is how I setup my cron job (see attached).

Also, I wanted to point out that because the PHP code uses 86,400 (the number of seconds in a full day) as a multiplier when figuring out how old the threads are, you can actually specify something like .5 days if you want to delete/move threads every 12 hours. Or you could use .25 to delete threads every 6 hours for example. I was just about to hack the code to do this, because I needed to remove threads (once a day) that were older than 12 hours. However, since the code uses the # of seconds to figure it out, you can fine tune the time frame using a fractional value for the number of days in the settings. Very handy!

Nice job on the product - I just clicked the "installed" button for you :-)

Ray

[M.C.]

Thanks, Ray! I had same problem on 3.8 and after addin cron job manually it seems it working...

[xlguy]

So this is working ok in 3.8 then?

[BlueNinjaGo]

Nvm