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]

Originally Posted by Kaishi

another problem kinda. sometimes it would send a 3/5/8 day reminder to someone, then the next day it would send the same reminder again. for example, today user x got a 3 day reminder, tomorrow, he gets a 3 day reminder again.

i've never got this myself but am testing it with today and tomorrow's mailout.

[Kaishi]

on the http://www.ebslive.com/confessions/?do=confess page, somehow

the vboptions[hometitle] confession box is about relief...

the vbtoptions[hometitle] didn't parse, or that u forgot a $. that's on your site btw lol

edit: i'm such a dumb ass sometimes, i posted on the wrong thread! lol

[kall]

I might just be really stupid but... do we delete the existing Manage Activation cron task?

I have a test account that keeps getting the standard one..minus the 'we will delete you in 2 days' and stuff.

[Sadie Frost]

Does anyone know if this will still work with 3.5? (since it did not require file edits)

[ADM]

hmm I also have that problem where it sends a notice to the same users who received one the day before.

For example:

June 27th:

manageActivation Complete;
3 Day Reminder Sent To: tit24, Dragontalin, Jonny, William Of Occam, Musopticon?, jolepros.

5 Day Reminder Sent To: Taiwnoser, Razier, Clnqt, trigun0006, crusaderqb207, kmcqb207, Kill Switch.

8 Day Reminder Sent To: Ghast.

Users Deleted: No one was deleted.

June 28th:

manageActivation Complete;
3 Day Reminder Sent To: QwNtacular, tit24, Dragontalin, Jonny.

5 Day Reminder Sent To: Clnqt, trigun0006, crusaderqb207, kmcqb207, Kill Switch, William Of Occam, Musopticon?, jolepros.

8 Day Reminder Sent To: Ghast.

Users Deleted: MaxPayne.

[sabret00the]

Originally Posted by kall

I might just be really stupid but... do we delete the existing Manage Activation cron task?

I have a test account that keeps getting the standard one..minus the 'we will delete you in 2 days' and stuff.

just don't run it, so yes delete the cron but not the file.

Originally Posted by Sadie Frost

Does anyone know if this will still work with 3.5? (since it did not require file edits)

not at present but when it goes gold i will update the hack.

Originally Posted by ADoomedMarine

hmm I also have that problem where it sends a notice to the same users who received one the day before.

i'm still to receive this problem, however i'm sure marco said at some stage that it may be due to that user activating twice, or something similar.

[ADM]

I've just had a user receive an 8 day notice 3 days in a row.

Is there any way I can fix this? This is happening quite frequently on my setup.

[okc]

I like the hack, but I've got a problem - I set up a dummy account to see if it was working properly and while it said it emailed me for being 3 days delinquent (which was right), I never got the email (problem). I checked & I can email from vB OK, the hack just doesn't get the email there - any ideas?

thx

[sabret00the]

Originally Posted by okc

I like the hack, but I've got a problem - I set up a dummy account to see if it was working properly and while it said it emailed me for being 3 days delinquent (which was right), I never got the email (problem). I checked & I can email from vB OK, the hack just doesn't get the email there - any ideas?

thx

you can receieve emails on the same installation via the admincp but not the cron?

[okc]

Problem 1 - I get the status/notification email, which says it sent a reminder to my test account email, but I never get that email at my test account. Somehow the email reminder does not go out.

Should the chdir line look something like this?
chdir('/home/public_html/forums/')

Problem 2 - I'm getting about 100 emails giving me status/notification (3 day users notified, etc) - a few every few minutes - I'd like to fix this.