New Posting Features - Automatic Thread Closing

Hello guys this is my first mod ported for 3.7, it still works on 3.6 though!

Features:

• Make a list of forums to either restrict the add-on to or exclude the addon from the list
• Option to close sticky threads or not
• Enable/disable hack
• Set timelimit
• All settings can be set in ACP
• Option to close thread after X amount of posts
• Allow certain usergroups to bypass the hack

Why?
I was getting tired of all those people necro-posting, posting in threads that are up to three years old. This is my solution

Time to install:
Less than one minute

History:
1.00 release
1.10 threadbit display closed
1.20 all settings through ACP
1.30 close thread after reply-count
1.40 bugfix
1.50 dunno what I did
1.60 option to exclude or restrict to the list of forum ids


After billions of requests, I have finally done what you did!

Note
Don't forget to click Mark as Installed!
Also, my testing system is down but the worst this hack can cause is a syntax error.

[ralle89]

It simply checks the date and if it's too old and fits the right forum, it will appear locked. That's all. No database changes at all.

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by djbaxter

I would assume this runs via a cron job but I don't see anything listed under Scheduled Tasks...

I'm still curious as to how it's triggered...

Originally Posted by ralle89

It simply checks the date and if it's too old and fits the right forum, it will appear locked. That's all. No database changes at all.

My question was: How is it triggered? It can't be running continuously, I assume. How often does it check for age of threads? And using what mechanism?

[ralle89]

Can't you just view the code?
Well it runs when needed, it's not a cronjob. It just runs with showthread and modifies the output.

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by ralle89

Can't you just view the code?
Well it runs when needed, it's not a cronjob. It just runs with showthread and modifies the output.

Thank you. There... was that so difficult?

[ralle89]

Lol. No not really.

[merkaz]

So Nice

thanks

[masterme]

Can this also be used to close a thread automaticly after x posts have been made?

[Jalo]

Installed but for some reason the icons do not indicate that the thread is closed. Any suggestions?

Manually closing a thread does show the right icon.

Jan

[ralle89]

Originally Posted by Jalo

Installed but for some reason the icons do not indicate that the thread is closed. Any suggestions?

Manually closing a thread does show the right icon.

Jan

Can you send a screenshot? Are you sure the thread lives up to the conditions of when it should be closed?

Originally Posted by masterme

Can this also be used to close a thread automaticly after x posts have been made?

yeah "Option to close thread after X amount of thread" is supposed to mean that :P

[my_aly]

Thank you