Creating a Scheduled Task: Update User Titles and Ranks

[adwade]

So does the update user titles and ranks function already get run once-a-week, automatically?(i.e. via digestweekly.php)

I'm no programmer either, but THANK YOU Lynne for your posts! I might be able to cobble something together from all that information.

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I recently installed Paul M's Move inactive users to new usergroup MOD and am looking for a way to keep my user titles accurate each day, after his mod runs nightly.

Is this code section below what needs to be copied/pasted into a new php file, for a new cron job?

Also, since I only want to run the update user titles and ranks function is there anything else in the code below I need to remove?

// ###################### Start update user #######################
if ($_REQUEST['do'] == 'updateuser')
{
	require_once(DIR . '/includes/functions_infractions.php');

	if (empty($vbulletin->GPC['perpage']))
	{
		$vbulletin->GPC['perpage'] = 1000;
	}

	echo '<p>' . $vbphrase['updating_user_info'] . '</p>';
	$tmp_usergroup_cache = array();

	$infractiongroups = array();
	$groups = $vbulletin->db->query_read("
		SELECT usergroupid, orusergroupid, pointlevel, override
		FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "infractiongroup
		ORDER BY pointlevel
	");
	while ($group = $vbulletin->db->fetch_array($groups))
	{
		$infractiongroups["$group[usergroupid]"]["$group[pointlevel]"][] = array(
			'orusergroupid' => $group['orusergroupid'],
			'override'      => $group['override'],
		);
	}

	$users = $db->query_read("
		SELECT user.*, usertextfield.rank,
		IF(user.displaygroupid=0, user.usergroupid, user.displaygroupid) AS displaygroupid
		FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "user AS user
		LEFT JOIN " . TABLE_PREFIX . "usertextfield AS usertextfield USING (userid)
		WHERE user.userid >= " . $vbulletin->GPC['startat'] . "
		ORDER BY user.userid
		LIMIT " . $vbulletin->GPC['perpage']
	);

	$finishat = $vbulletin->GPC['startat'];

	while ($user = $db->fetch_array($users))
	{
		$userdm =& datamanager_init('User', $vbulletin, ERRTYPE_CP);
		$userdm->set_existing($user);
		cache_permissions($user, false);

		$userdm->set_usertitle(
			($user['customtitle'] ? $user['usertitle'] : ''),
			false,
			$vbulletin->usergroupcache["$user[displaygroupid]"],
			($user['customtitle'] == 1 OR $user['permissions']['genericpermissions'] & $vbulletin->bf_ugp_genericpermissions['canusecustomtitle']) ? true : false,
			($user['customtitle'] == 1) ? true : false
		);

		if ($lastpost = $db->query_first("SELECT MAX(dateline) AS dateline FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "post WHERE userid = $user[userid]"))
		{
			$lastpost['dateline'] = intval($lastpost['dateline']);
		}
		else
		{
			$lastpost['dateline'] = 0;
		}

		$infractioninfo = fetch_infraction_groups($infractiongroups, $user['userid'], $user['ipoints'], $user['usergroupid']);
		$userdm->set('infractiongroupids', $infractioninfo['infractiongroupids']);
		$userdm->set('infractiongroupid', $infractioninfo['infractiongroupid']);

		$userdm->set('posts', $user['posts']); // This will activate the rank update
		$userdm->set('lastpost', $lastpost['dateline']);
		$userdm->save();
		unset($userdm);

		echo construct_phrase($vbphrase['processing_x'], $user['userid']) . "<br />\n";
		vbflush();

		$finishat = ($user['userid'] > $finishat ? $user['userid'] : $finishat);
	}

	$finishat++;

	if ($checkmore = $db->query_first("SELECT userid FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "user WHERE userid >= $finishat LIMIT 1"))
	{
		print_cp_redirect("misc.php?" . $vbulletin->session->vars['sessionurl'] . "do=updateuser&startat=$finishat&pp=" . $vbulletin->GPC['perpage']);
		echo "<p><a href=\"misc.php?" . $vbulletin->session->vars['sessionurl'] . "do=updateuser&amp;startat=$finishat&amp;pp=" . $vbulletin->GPC['perpage'] . "\">" . $vbphrase['click_here_to_continue_processing'] . "</a></p>";
	}
	else
	{
		define('CP_REDIRECT', 'misc.php');
		print_stop_message('updated_user_titles_successfully');
	}
}
// ###################### Finish update user #######################