Un-Activated User Management

although i know this works manually, it's untested via cron

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.

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.

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Add-On:
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if you like your templates in your admin cp neat then do this:
in "includes/adminfunctions_template.php" find

PHP Code:

    'subscription' => $vbphrase['group_paid_subscriptions'], 


add below

PHP Code:

    'activationemail' => ActivationEmail, 


now save and close cos you're done :cheeky: :bored:

[high]wol stuff been removed due to the fact this should now be in the cron directory and thus won't show up anyway[/high]

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.

[high]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, so please if you install this should your gratitude in her direction as without her it would've been impossible.

the two critical bugs that a/ it wasn't sending the activationid and b/ it was deleting users who didn't change their email correctly, have been squashed by Psico[/high]

v2.1: Boofo killed 2 bugs
v2.2: more bugs killed by Boofo
v2.3: bugs killed by psico
v2.3a: bugs killed by sv1cec
v2.4: changed activation code when one exists already removed (sv1cec)
v2.4: better cron logging (me)
v2.4: table prefix bug found by jlurken, fixed by moi
v2.5: email reminder sent to your inbox thanks to sv1vec, improved logging, removed redundant code.
v2.5.2: fixed table prefixes.

[high]YOU WILL NOW NEED TO EDIT THE FILE TO MAKE SURE IT WORKS, IT'S CLEARLY MARKED ON LINE 21[/high]

[sabret00the]

it's 5am, i'm still at work, but i'll talk to bob in the morning and update the neccessary files as soon as i wake up tomorrow.

[lifesourcerec]

Sounds good

[Bryan Ex]

If I install this (I'm really tired of pruning manually!) will it double up the activation reminders that are already being sent out by VB3?

[sabret00the]

if you install this, you're best to disable the one built into vbulletin, but i would wait a while cos i'm going to update this by end of weekend.

[Bryan Ex]

Perfect! Just out of curiousity... is the update for bug fixes ... or additions to what you've already posted?

[Bryan Ex]

Originally Posted by sabret00the

although i know this works manually, it's untested via cron

Is this still the case and/or will it run off the VB cron?

[sabret00the]

just updated this upto version 2.2 thanks to Boofo, so please if you're gonna show gratitude, show it to both them.

to upgrade all you have to do is replace the managaActivation.php

anyhoo not to good at this whole release stuff so have fun with it

instructions on how to run under the vb cron system are in the installation file.

[lifesourcerec]

Where do you add the password at in this file?

[sabret00the]

you actually don't need to do that bit anymore, sorry should've removed that bit from the instructions

[psico]

Originally Posted by sabret00the

you actually don't need to do that bit anymore, sorry should've removed that bit from the instructions

What happend if a user change his email and make a mistake? This user would lost his account in ten days??
I think this hack have to check if this user is a new registration or an email change, for obvious reasons

Great hack dude!