Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Auto Purge Threads

What does this hack do ?
This tool is based on Auto Delete/Move tool by HaMaDa4eVeR for vBulletin 3.6.4.

This hack can delete the threads that was created before X days in your specific forums or it can move threads to specific(Archive) through scheduled task.

Features:
Turn On the plugin
Turn On/Off Move system.
Turn On/Off Delete system.
Specific forums for move and delete.
Specific "Archive Forum".
Protected Users.
Delete Type (soft/hard).
Automatically update counters.
Choose to delete/move stickies.
Set how old must a thread be.
NO Code Modifications needed!

Installation:
1. Unzip the download package and copy the contents of the folder UPLOAD to your forum root
2. Go to the VB AdminCP->Plugins & Products click "Manage Products". Then click
"Add/Import Product" at the bottom of the page.
3. Click "Browse" button and point to the installation XML file included in this ZIP package.
4. Click "Import"
5. Once the gallery import is complete, you can setup your Auto Purge. Go to VB AdminCP -> Options -> Auto Purge Threads to setup the Auto Purge.
Also, you can change the cron setup in the task manager.

NOTE:
The default settings are:
- Soft delete for the threads that have been created before 15 days ago.
- Protected user that have id 1 & 2.
- It will running everyday at 5.00 AM.

Updates:

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v1.00
It is now vBulletin 4.x.x compatible.
Cron task added successfully. Removed some old SQL queries.
Removed the zero replies thread search.
Spanish translation added.

v1.01
You can set if you want to remove stickies.
If you move your threads, you can set if you want to unstick them if they are sticky.
XML tidied.

v1.02
You can set if you want to manually update your forum counters.
PHP tidied and optimized.

v1.03
Now you can move and/or delete different forums.
v1.03b
Fixed a MYSQL error.
v1.03c
Fixed a bug related to Protected users.

v1.04
Fixed a bug (thanks gocreate).
You can set if you want to remove locked threads.
You can set if you want to remove only threads without replies that match your other conditions.

v1.04b
Now you can protect some threads from moving/deletion.

v1.04d
Some bugs fixed.

v1.05
You can send PM when AutoPurge finish its work.

Next updates:
(sighs)

Special thanks to BirdOPrey5

Any donation?
I'm not begging but If you want, I would be glad to receive a small donation. There are 4.4 million unemployed in my country and It is hard to be employed.

[Seductor]

@Easy5s.net Send me a pm.

[thunderclap82]

Any plans to implement the requested feature of pruning from the last reply instead of original post? I, too, would love this feature.

[Seductor]

Originally Posted by thunderclap82

Any plans to implement the requested feature of pruning from the last reply instead of original post? I, too, would love this feature.

But... what would it need to check from the last reply?

[Seductor]

The new PM notifier is a sh...t :\ It sends a lot of PMs, does not work as I expected.

[nodofollow]

is it possible to make thread to closed not purged ?

[bzcomputers]

Originally Posted by thunderclap82

Any plans to implement the requested feature of pruning from the last reply instead of original post? I, too, would love this feature.

Could definitely use this mod also if it added the option to go form the date of the last post in thread instead of original thread posting date.

[bzcomputers]

I get this error when running cron job manually:

Fatal error: Call to a member function query_read_slave() on a non-object in /home/XXXXXX/public_html/forum/includes/functions.php on line 8503

functions.php: lines 8503-8598

$data = $db->query_read_slave("
		SELECT *
		FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "navigation
		WHERE state & " . NAV_DELETED . " = 0
		ORDER BY navtype, displayorder
	");

Edit:
If I turn off "Enable PM's" this error does not show.

[bzcomputers]

There also seems to be in error in updating counters for the archive forum also.

I had to edit cronautopurge.php:

$threadman->save();
			//Update forum counters
			if($buildcounters)
			{
				build_forum_counters($thread['forumid']);
				build_forum_counters($to);
			}
			echo "Auto Move Threads:<i>".$thread[title]."</a></i><br>";

			log_cron_action('Threads moved.', $nextitem);

If I change "$to" above to the actual forum id of the archive forum it works but it will not work using the archive forum input in the admin settings.

Example: If you set "20" in admin settings for archive forum it does not update, if you set "20" directly in the cronautopurge.php "build_forum_counters(20);" it works.

[Shazz]

The only option I'm using is to move threads from one forum to the other.
I need the threads moved every night at midnight, I know there is code for a scheduled task for this as well.

If anyone can assist I will definitely make it worth your wild.

[ndahiya]

Hi Seductor,

Are you planning to release an update to this with the bugs fixed? Would appreciate it.

I am looking to set up a craigslist style classifieds forum, and think i can comine this with a "forms" plugin to achieve the result.

One other extension suggestion (good to have) is to have a per thread (user selected) ad expire duration, and use that to check in the cron job rather than the standard expire duration.

TIA

ndahiya