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]

yup problems mentioned above have been fixed

[sv1cec]

Originally Posted by sabret00the

yup problems mentioned above have been fixed

Thank you Sir!

[sv1cec]

Maybe I have screwed up something or not followed the instructions properly (or this has been dealt with), but the e-mail send out does not include the $bbtitle, in the From text. Maybe, in the manageActivation.php, one should change :

			mail ($user[email],$subject,$message,"From: \"$bbtitle Mailer\" <

with:

			mail ($user[email],$subject,$message,"From: \"$vboptions[bbtitle] Mailer\" <

I am not sure, I'll create a new user now and wait to see what happens.

Rgds

[sabret00the]

thanks, if you let me know i'll update the instructions

[sv1cec]

Originally Posted by sabret00the

thanks, if you let me know i'll update the instructions

Well, unless if you have an idea on how to "force" an e-mail out of the script, we'll have to wait for three days! LoL

Thanks for coming back and rgds

[Datenpapst]

What about 0-Posters? Is there a hack, that does the same Emailing and so on and also delets user after 10 days?

[sv1cec]

I checked, and yes, you should include the code change suggested in Post 43.

It now shows the proper bbtitle.

Rgds

[TTG]

Originally Posted by rinkrat

Shouldn't the manageActivation.php file go in includes/cron? Or does it matter?

Downloaded today and instructions still read :-

"This hack will email members who have not yet activated their accounts and remind them to do so on day 3, 5, and 8. Users who have not activated after 10 days are deleted.

Installation is cake.
1. upload manageActivation.php to your forum director.
2. Create new templates based on the text files enclosed in the zip.
a. Template name = filename.
b. Template contents = file contents.
3. Set up your cron job to run the script once a day. Use vBulletin's default system "Scheduled Tasks"

Time to update !?

Useful hack ... clicked install

[Malice]

I am tempted to use this...

I have 1700 UnActivated users on one and like 4000 on another...

[sv1cec]

Is there any reason, why the e-mail gets send twice? Actually with a difference of one day between the two copies???

I am puzzled, I checked the code and can find any reason why. My cron entry is shown in the attachment and I have disabled to standard e-mail cron script.

Also, I do not get any log entries for the manageActivation. Is this normal or what?

Tnx