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.

[TheComputerGuy]

Nobi...awesome idea!

I like this in general too!

[echamberlain]

What do you mean by section?

If you want to limit Close Old Threads to a subset of forums, enter the forum ID's to exclude in the control panel settings page.

[radarhunter]

i mean for people who have around 20 sections and in one section around 2-4 sub-sections
for them it`s hard to exclude everything

[lazyseller]

if u have 100 forums and u only want to close 1. You have to input 9 forumid's

[radarhunter]

heh heh not 9 , 99

so it`s kindda though can`t we have sumthin` like in choosing wtever we want and whatever we don`t want to close that

i have attached a pic of what i mean .........

[echamberlain]

Good point.

I've got some other work to do today, but if I get some time tonight or tomorrow, I will modify the hack to: include the listed forum IDs, exclude the listed forum IDs, or All forums.

[radarhunter]

thanks in advance

[nasser71]

gr8 jop m8
thanks alot

[echamberlain]

I released version 1.1 with support for including a subset of forums.

[PIKenPIK]

Originally Posted by echamberlain

I released version 1.1 with support for including a subset of forums.

TY .. was really waiting for this one ..

but with importing from my C-drive i get in 3.6.2 the message

Error opening file to writing