Un-Activated User Management

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.

[sabret00the]

that's not the email, that's what i get from the cron job

it's doing a lynx -dump www.ebslive.com/forums/manageAcitivation.php everyday at 5pm (GMT) and that's what it gets, but i was thinking if it was working, surely it would be logged it wouldn't it 0_o

was i meant to set it up it's own account or edit the php file or something?

[sabret00the]

amy?

[amykhar]

sabre, I have a hunch you put the script in your admin directory. It doesn't belong there because we can't pass in the login and password there.

[pgowder]

So how can I verify it works before I cron it?

I try running it in the browser and I get permission denied.

How can I check to see that the emails where sent.

Thanks

[pgowder]

05-22-03 at 05:57 PM squawell said this in Post #48
finally i got that work

i open the manageActivation.php find

$pass = "password";

replace to

$pass = "";

and it works....... :banana:

Nevermind, I found it!

[sajjid]

this is a great hack i like as matter of fact i am just about to click the install button.
but i think it would be a great addon if you could lookup users who have not posted anything since registeration and delete them i am sure there is a way.
Thanks either way its a great hack even without it

[DILLIGAF]

Here is an idea if anyone wants to take it on to improve this hack abit. have it self powered by the message board it self. have it run throught he functions.php this way every time the board is accessed, the moded hack will do a time check to see if it when the admin wants it to run and also it it is a new day. If it is, it runs the hack.

[Talisman]

Hi Amy,

(This is a great hack..... thanks.)

Would you help me make a change to the final step in this hack? Instead of deleting them all, we would rather dump them together into a separate usergroup ..... what would amount to a "dead" file for people with NO access -- and who wouldn't show up on our member list.

We banned someone 1-1/2 years ago who still keeps trying to sneak back in. He's tried dozens of fake names/accounts and gets other people (who are more knowledgeable) to help set up garbage identities for him or find ways to get past vB security. So at our site, we want to keep the information we get in the system from incomplete registrations.

Let me know if you need any other information to do this. And thanks, again, for the hack.

Cheers,

Talis.

[sabret00the]

06-03-03 at 07:26 PM amykhar said this in Post #53
sabre, I have a hunch you put the script in your admin directory. It doesn't belong there because we can't pass in the login and password there.

got it to work by taking out password thing

[GoTTi]

i get a blank page when i run this on 2.3.0, any1 else duplicating?