threadBOT: The Thread Provider

WHAT:
This hack will create threads at regualar intervals in the forum you specify and with the body text you specify on a thread by thread basis

WHY:
Because your forums are probably dead or you just wanna make sure you continue in the persut of quality topic-specific threads

WHEN:
Whenever you set it to because we're cron like that

WHERE:
In your forums

HOW:
Easily, theirs like one file edit and that's one of the files this comes with, we call it super plug-in power-o

ANYTHING ELSE:
Yes if jilly didn't make the request i would've never got round to spending the few hours it took to create this, though i got distracted alot and so it took me like 5 hours over 3 weeks.

Installation
Unpack to the directories stated and then run the installer @ http://www.yourdomain.com/forums/ins...ck_install.php and follow all the instructions.

Upgrading
Replace the cron file.

[sabret00the]

ok my bad, set the threadBOT hour limit to 24.

and make sure that the cron job is set to run in hours rather than minutes.

[TTG]

Clicked install
One small confusing element .. in admincp "threadBOT Feeding Permissions" . "Please enter the forumid of a forum where only people you want to be able to feed the threadBOT have permission to view and post."

When using feed_threadBOT.php, the drop down list provides a list of category's into which post will be added by the cron. Do we need to add all the category ID's for all the forums we want posts to be allowed in the admincp?

[sabret00the]

nope you just gotta put in a forum with the permissions of the posters you want to be able to feed the threadBOT.

i think i explained it a bit better here https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....1&postcount=27

[jilly]

Okay, I put about 7 sample questions in through feed_threadBOT.php for the same forum, and when the cron time came, it posted all of the questions I had entered, instead of selecting just one randomly.

[sabret00the]

ok finally had time to play with this, it was me being a dummy.

regarding the cron set the hour you want it to run and set the minute to 0 or it will run continuously, sorry i should've checked that before hand.

[jilly]

Okay I did that, then I tried clicking the 'run now' button in scheduled tasks, and got this error:

Database error in vBulletin 3.0.7:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT *
FROM post_bank
WHERE threadid =
LIMIT 1

mysql error: You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'LIMIT 1' at line 4

mysql error number: 1064

Date: Tuesday 17th of May 2005 02:48:55 PM
Script: http://www.bmww.org/forums/admincp/c...cron&cronid=15
Referer: http://www.bmww.org/forums/admincp/index.php?

[kevinrstruck]

feed_threadBOT.php??? I installed, but I can not find this file anywhere. Where is it?

[TTG]

Originally Posted by jilly

Okay I did that, then I tried clicking the 'run now' button in scheduled tasks, and got this error:

I'm getting the same error !?

[jilly]

kevin, feedthreadBOT.php should be in www.yoururl.com/forum/feedthreadBOT.php

[sabret00the]

Originally Posted by jilly

Okay I did that, then I tried clicking the 'run now' button in scheduled tasks, and got this error:

Database error in vBulletin 3.0.7:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT *
FROM post_bank
WHERE threadid =
LIMIT 1

mysql error: You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'LIMIT 1' at line 4

mysql error number: 1064

Date: Tuesday 17th of May 2005 02:48:55 PM
Script: http://www.bmww.org/forums/admincp/c...cron&cronid=15
Referer: http://www.bmww.org/forums/admincp/index.php?

are you sure you have any threads left in your thread_bank?