Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Expired Threads

Expired Threads

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Author: Ken 'LiveWire' Iovino
Site: www.initialz.com
Version: 1.1
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Updates

• Threads expired in days not seconds

Exitising Users Please Read
Open the file update_1.0_to_1.1.txt


WetWired Gets credit for the original idea, i saw this created on his forums long ago, and finaly decided to code it. and share with vBulletin.

What this does
This will allow you as the admin to set a time limit till a thread is considered expired. If the thread happens to be expired, the user will see a error message. But a staff member (ie, mod, sup-mod, and admin) can unexpire the thread by posting in it, then the counter will start over again. This will prevent those anoyying thread digger members we all seem to dislike.

This works as a per forum basis. You can turn on/off any forum you want.


To do list...

• Time to install: 5-10 minutes
• Queries to run: 1
• File Mods: 2
  • /admincp/forum.php
  • /forums/newreply.php
• Templates to edit: 0
• Templates to add: 0
• New Phrases: 4

Please read carefully and make all the necessary changes as stated. This is will work if installed properly.
PLEASE REMEMBER TO BACKUP BEFORE YOU BEGIN! If you like this hack

Click It

Help & Support
Before asking for support Please make sure you have done all necessary changes! If you still need support please post a reply here.

Please post bugs and errors here. Hope you like, feedback welcomed.

Special Thanks to:
-nexialys

[Logikos]

I might be able to do something like that for you. Give me a day and i'll have something like that up for you.

[TVB]

Thanks for the useful hack and thanks to 007 for pointing out the typo. I had the same blank screen as mentioned previously and the typo was the problem.

Thanks again.

[gizmosheretwo]

am I right in assuming it will not work on 3.0.7?

[Exitilus]

I'm running 3.07 and it works perfectly fine.

[gizmosheretwo]

Well I get a parse error

Parse error: parse error, unexpected '[' in /home/xxxxxx/public_html/e/admincp/forum.php on line 134

Within my admin area, when clicking on
FORUM MANAGER
ADD NEW FORUM
after adding:

print_yes_no_row($vbphrase['do_threads_expire'], 'forum[expired]', $forum['expired']);
print_input_row($vbphrase['how_many_Days_till_expire'],forum[daysexpired]', $forum['daysexpired']);

All phrases have been added
Using 3.0.7

[gizmosheretwo]

Originally Posted by 007

There is a pretty bad typo in the forums.php instructions. It should be:

PHP Code:

        print_input_row($vbphrase['how_many_days_till_expire'], 'forum[daysexpired]', $forum['daysexpired']); 


Other than that everything works fine.

[high]* 007 licks the install button! [/high]

It's ok thanks to above users post:
Thanks that's why I was getting parse errors

Maybe this should be corrected for other users trying to implement code