Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Un-Activated User Management 3.1

this was a fantastic vb2 hack and was made with blood, sweat and tears by Amy, she deserves all the credit for doing a fantastic job and then giving me permission to release this. If you install this you should show your gratitude in her direction as without her it wouldn't have been possible.


if you got a big board you can't live without this, it stops the crap from piling up.

anything messes up, i can't take responsibility i'm afraid so back up before you try it.

Originally Posted by AmyKhar

This hack will email a warning to members who have not activated their account and then delete them. It can run via cron, and is a pretty darn easy hack to install.

Features:
1. Emails users after 3 days and reminds them to activate their accounts.

2. Emails users after 5 days and lets them know their account will be deleted if they do not activate.

3. Emails users after 8 days with a final warning.

4. Deletes un-activated members after 10 days.

It still does exactly the same but this time for vb3

oh yeah, it emails you to tell you who was deleted, emailed so you're always informed.


and now like the days of our youth where everything was free and our mum would have dinner on the table for us, you're done.

v2.x Contributors Include: Boofo, psico, sv1cec and jlurken
v3.x Contributors Include: Paul M

UPDATED: now 3.6 compliant.

Arabic version thanks to Almotmaiz.Net

[Videx]

I dunno. Until this gets updated for vb4, at least VSa - Advanced Registration will delete inactive registrants after x days.

[Marv]

hey sabre,

this one was a fantastic help in 3.x !

if you got a big board you can't live without this, it stops the crap from piling up.

Any chance you could port this for a use with the 4.x series ?

[jGas]

thanks to anyone that will port this mod to vb4!! please

[MrD]

Hi,
this Addon will work under VB4.

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by AScherff

i like this Mod, because it helps manage the unactivated users.

The days are calculated as float, so you will not get the exact days after registering, that causes the "bug" posts before...

I modified the php sources to calculate the days other way - and the mod now is working very well also on 3.8.2

My hack lookes like this:

PHP Code:

    $tag=date('Ymd',$user[joindate]);
    $heute=date("Ymd");
    
    $j=(int)substr($tag,0,4);
    $m=(int)substr($tag,4,2);
    $t=(int)substr($tag,6,2);

    $datum3=date('Ymd',mktime(0,0,0,$m,$t+3,$j));
    $datum5=date('Ymd',mktime(0,0,0,$m,$t+5,$j));
    $datum8=date('Ymd',mktime(0,0,0,$m,$t+8,$j));
    $datum10=date('Ymd',mktime(0,0,0,$m,$t+10,$j));
...
    if ($heute == $datum3) // Email users who have not activated after 3 days.
... 


Does anyone know where to make these changes?

Edit- I've read the php code and see no reason why there would be a 'bug' that causes the emails to be resent day after day... the code clearly sends it once (if $day > 2 AND $day < 4) for exampe... maybe it should be changed to if ($day > 2.999 AND $day < 4) then?

[AScherff]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

Does anyone know where to make these changes?

manageActivation.php

[BirdOPrey5]

Thanks for the quick reply on this old thread!

I figured as much on the file, but where do I make the edits in the file? What lines do I change? I don't see any code resembling this.

[MonkYZ]

I strongly advice you not to use this on 3.8.5. I've had over 648 members in "Awaiting Email Confirmation Group". Installed this hack and runned it from Scheduled Task manager. It instantly deleted 636 members... no questions asked ! So, DO NOT USE IT ! It's not working ok !

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by MonkYZ

I strongly advice you not to use this on 3.8.5. I've had over 648 members in "Awaiting Email Confirmation Group". Installed this hack and runned it from Scheduled Task manager. It instantly deleted 636 members... no questions asked ! So, DO NOT USE IT ! It's not working ok !

Holy public embarassment, Monk!

Did you not read the description of the add-on? Or look at the options?

Features:
1. Emails users after 3 days and reminds them to activate their accounts.

2. Emails users after 5 days and lets them know their account will be deleted if they do not activate.

3. Emails users after 8 days with a final warning.

4. Deletes un-activated members after 10 days.

1. Just what did you EXPECT to happen when you installed it?

2. Why on earth are you upset that 648 registrants who were still unactivated after 10 days (or in some cases probably much longer) are now deleted from your database? You now have a much smaller database uncluttered by useless records.

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by MonkYZ

I strongly advice you not to use this on 3.8.5. I've had over 648 members in "Awaiting Email Confirmation Group". Installed this hack and runned it from Scheduled Task manager. It instantly deleted 636 members... no questions asked ! So, DO NOT USE IT ! It's not working ok !

If your 648 users were stuck in the "Awaiting Confirmation" group for over 10 days then the mod did exactly what it is supposed to do... Before I installed the mod I manually sent reminders to my 100 or so users "stuck" in the queue- most had entered false or incorrect email addresses as I found out from the bounce backs... a couple actually joined... many never did anything... So then I installed the mod and on the first run it deleted all but 1 of them- 1 of them wasn't 10 days old yet... So I think it's working just fine- maybe you didn't understand how it works...