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]

[sv1cec]

Originally Posted by SaN-DeeP

sabret00the just 1 question for your hack.
My board is suffering from yahoo and hotmail spam filters, which make all the emails send from my forums to users spam/bulk mail folders who are using Yahoo or Hotmail. .

Does your hack, sends emails to there Inbox properly ?

Let me know. if it does, I will strarightway install it.

Regards,
Sandy...

Sandy,

I have the same problem. I do not know why it happens (what Yahoo looks for and moves our e-mails to the "Bulk" folder, but what I did to help diminish the consequences, was to put a note about this issue, in the screen the user gets, after he/she registers. It's one of the phrases, called "registeremail".

At least, with that message, a Yahoo user knows where to look for the activation e-mail.

Rgds
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John

[djroketboy]

ahh! I LOVE this hack, i've been wanting something like this!

i just noticed that the postings here stopped, did this get moved, removed, not supported any longer? i'm just curious...

i am running 3.03 and noticed this is for 3.01 and have a problem when running the vBcron script...

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/hpoa/public_html/community/includes/adminfunctions.php:223) in /home/hpoa/public_html/community/includes/functions.php on line 2716

I have only run this manually so far... and that's when i noticed it. it cleaned out about 200 un-activated members... yay!

ok, now have the "fixes" been applied that speak of users that are just changing their email address', it will not delete them correct? and finally.. i'm not getting any logging or emails.... this seemed to be where the posts in this thread stopped... can anyone clue me in ?

thanks!

Aaron

[sv1cec]

Aaaron,

Check your code again, there should be a mistake somewhere.

I am running the cron job and it works OK.

Rgds
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John

[djroketboy]

Originally Posted by sv1cec

Aaaron,

Check your code again, there should be a mistake somewhere.

I am running the cron job and it works OK.

Rgds
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John

hmm, i just noticed something... while playing with this hack... when it sends a email it doesn't go into the junkmail folder for yahoo....

anyone know what this sends differently? I would like to apply that change to my main vb activation and other emails... it's really annoying that they go into the junkmail folders for users....

also, are thes lines supposed to be commented out?

//$globaltemplates = array(
// 'ActivationEmail_v2_Subject',
// 'ActivationEmail_v2_Message3',
// 'ActivationEmail_v2_Message5',
// 'ActivationEmail_v2_Message8',
//);
//

[sabret00the]

updated this

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by sabret00the

updated this

What did you change in it, sir?

And please don't forget to update it at my site.

[sabret00the]

added a chdir to make sure it worked even if your forum aint in your root directory and added a line of code to log the crons

[outlaw621]

Originally Posted by pagekeeper

problem i find is i know this hack is running every 12 hours but i cant understand why it does appear in the logs ? it would be useful thats all, is something set wrong maybe ?

Activation Reminder Email - deactivate or delete ? cause i dont think you can deactivate can you ?

Why make extra work for yourself. Instead of deleteing it, edit the existing Activation Reminder Email cron job to point to the manageActivation.php file instead of activate.php. When you select the cron time you want it to run at, choose a time that your board is at its slowest activity.

[djroketboy]

Originally Posted by sabret00the

updated this

hey, i got the update, but am still having problems

Warning: chdir(): No such file or directory (errno 2) in /home/hpoa/public_html/community/includes/cron/manageActivation.php on line 21

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/hpoa/public_html/community/includes/adminfunctions.php:223) in /home/hpoa/public_html/community/includes/functions.php on line 2714

[sabret00the]

your line 21 should read

PHP Code:

chdir('/home/hpoa/public_html/community/'); //change to your vbulletin path 


can you let me know if it say that please