Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Un-Activated User Management 3.1

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. If you install this you should show your gratitude in her direction as without her it wouldn't have been possible.


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.

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.


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.

v2.x Contributors Include: Boofo, psico, sv1cec and jlurken
v3.x Contributors Include: Paul M

UPDATED: now 3.6 compliant.

Arabic version thanks to Almotmaiz.Net

[Mr Peabody]

this sort of thing should be standard!
Cheers

[Black Tiger]

This is already standard, but you can't setup yourself and it does not delete automatically. It just sends messages a couple of days.
So this hack is great!

[DementedMindz]

How is this standard? Can you point me to it in admincp?

[Team17]

Hi,
I've installed this hack and on my test account I get the 3 day warning on the 3rd and 4th days, the 5 day on the 5th and 6th etc. I've made some modifications to the script, I hope they are useful to others:

$day = (int)((($currentday - $user['joindate'])/86400)+0.5)

This casts $day to an integer (rounding .5 up and anything under down)

I think before I was getting a mail when $day was 2.5 and when it was 3.5.

Additionally I've changed the if commands to the form:

if ($day == 3) // Email users who have not activated after 3 days.

since they will now be exact numbers.

[aciurczak]

I was getting the same behavior, and hadn't yet had the patience to track down why the notices may have been going out twice. Thanks for taking the time!

[ombossman]

how to make this settings ??
Set up your cron job to run the script once a day using vBulletin's default system "Scheduled Tasks"
please tell me step and step

[DruidToolz]

I don't understand why alot of you are having a problem installing this hack or getting DB errors on top of that.. Unless your running something that interfere's with this hack then u might have a problem or even have another file called the same name... Then it might be good not to install the hack..

But for those that you want to install it just read the readme file and you will be able to install it with no problem.. Just try not to change things that you don't understand how it works etc.. If you do you will get DB errors (like some people here are getting).. But anyhow this hack works great for me and it has been working for awhile now.. ^.^ But on a side note to those that do install it.. Remember once the list of "Users Awaiting Email Confirmation" runs out this hack stops working until you get more people that haven't activated there accounts, then u will see the email again.. Good luck to everyone

[tekstylez]

How do I un-install this? My users are recieveing 15 emails a day from this thing. I uninstalled the product and the disabled the scedualed task, but they keep getting emails.............

[coffee]

Installed!

Thank you, sabret00the.

[SloppyGoat]

Alright, I installed this, then registered a test unactivated user. That user has received the 3 emails since 11/06. When exactly is it supposed to delete this user? 10 days after when? After the last email? Can we speed this up a bit? I think we're giving them too much time, myself....or is this not working right, and this user should've been deleted already?