Expire Unactivated Users by Timeframe

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Re: [11/02/07] Expire Unactivated Users by Timeframe

Post by rscyp »

I've installed the 2.0 but i don't have the automation working. I don't know where to add the following code. Could you please explain or point me in the right direction? I love what i have so far but now would like to have it automated so i don't have to do it. thanks!!!

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#-----[ SQL ]------------------------------------------
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INSERT INTO phpbb_config ( config_name, config_value ) VALUES ('expire_automation_enable', '0');...

thanks for the help. 8O
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Re: [11/02/07] Expire Unactivated Users by Timeframe

Post by IPB_Refugee »

Hi,

that is a SQL query which changes the data base a bit. You can run the query via phpMYAdmin or a similar tool:

http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/docs.php

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Re: [11/02/07] Expire Unactivated Users by Timeframe

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Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I had forgotten about phpMYAdmin but with your help i've run the sql statements and all it good. thanks for the help. :D
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Thank you IPB_Refugee for stepping in and helping out with the info, it's appreciated.
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Re: [11/02/07] Expire Unactivated Users by Timeframe

Post by LoOoD »

How about an option to delete all unactivated users w/ no time frame :).. I suppose you would only use it once the first time you install this but yeah.
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Re: [11/02/07] Expire Unactivated Users by Timeframe

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LoOoD wrote:How about an option to delete all unactivated users w/ no time frame :).. I suppose you would only use it once the first time you install this but yeah.
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http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=438074

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Re: [11/02/07] Expire Unactivated Users by Timeframe

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The design idea of making the lowest setting one hour in the past was to prevent deleting legitimate users that may have just signed up to your forum in the last few minutes from being deleted before they could get to the link in their email to activate their registration. It would be unfortunate to do that, especially if you have a very active forum.
If someone can't get to their email and activate within an hour that's usually only an indication it's a spammer. One hour is so small a time frame really that I do mark it as practically immediate in the listing. Of course if you are being bombarded by thousands of spammers per hour I think you may have more problems than this mod could help :)

I'm always willing to make additions to the mod though, so suggestions are welcome. (and note that the 2.0.0 version of the mod is only available from my site at the moment since the mod database isn't up yet, go to awsom.org to get the automated version of the mod)
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Re: [11/02/07] Expire Unactivated Users by Timeframe

Post by afarber »

Doesn't work with PostgreSQL:

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phpbb=> SELECT user_id FROM phpbb_users WHERE (user_active = 0) and (user_id <>-1) and (user_lastvisit = 0) and (user_regdate < "1186045406") ;

ERROR:  column "1186045406" does not exist
I think you should change the double quotes to single quotes
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Post by Nytewind »

Props on this mod. I am totally loving it.
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Post by elkay »

Thanks so much for this!!
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Post by Nothing is easy »

Couple of questions:

1) Does this delete just (or can it be limited to) users who are not activated and whose post count is zero?
2) If the userid being deleted is also in the banned user list is the userid also removed from there too?

Reasons for asking are that for some reason I believe that users can go to not activated if they change their email address in their profile. Also I have added inactivated users to my ban list that were spammers mainly to prevent them from activating and posting or from using the same email address again which deleting them would have allowed. However, there comes a point where I am happy to finally remove them.
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Re: [11/02/07] Expire Unactivated Users by Timeframe

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Nothing is easy wrote:2) If the userid being deleted is also in the banned user list is the userid also removed from there too?
Hello,
just test it without the MOD!
Create a test account. Ban the user(name). Delete the user. Look the the ban list.

At least in phpBB3 the ban entry will be deleted automatically if you use the function user_delete(...) .

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Re: [11/02/07] Expire Unactivated Users by Timeframe

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Martin Truckenbrodt wrote:
Nothing is easy wrote:2) If the userid being deleted is also in the banned user list is the userid also removed from there too?
Hello,
just test it without the MOD!
Create a test account. Ban the user(name). Delete the user. Look the the ban list.
Using the delete function from within the User Admin Management panel does remove the userid from the ban list. However, that does not necessarily mean to say that this mod deletes users in the same way as the User Management delete function does it?

So my question regarding what does this mod do still stands - as does my question does this delete just (or can it be limited to) users who are not activated and whose post count is zero?
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Re: [11/02/07] Expire Unactivated Users by Timeframe

Post by Martin Truckenbrodt »

Hello,
let's have a look to the code.
admin_expire_unactivated.php:

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...
				$thisuseridrow = $db->sql_fetchrow($thisuseridresult);
				$sql = "DELETE FROM " . USERS_TABLE . "
								WHERE user_id = $user_id";
							if( !$db->sql_query($sql) )
							{
								message_die(GENERAL_ERROR, 'Could not delete user', '', __LINE__, __FILE__, $sql);
							}
				
							$sql = "DELETE FROM " . USER_GROUP_TABLE . "
								WHERE user_id = $user_id";
							if( !$db->sql_query($sql) )
							{
								message_die(GENERAL_ERROR, 'Could not delete user from user_group table', '', __LINE__, __FILE__, $sql);
							}
				
							$sql = "DELETE FROM " . GROUPS_TABLE . "
								WHERE group_id = " . $thisuseridrow['group_id'];
							if( !$db->sql_query($sql) )
							{
								message_die(GENERAL_ERROR, 'Could not delete group for this user', '', __LINE__, __FILE__, $sql);
							}
				$db->sql_freeresult($thisuseridresult);			
...
So the MOD doesn't delete the ban entry. That's not good!

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Re: [11/02/07] Expire Unactivated Users by Timeframe

Post by harknell »

Sorry for not being super active on the forum recently, I've mostly been working on Wordpress stuff and this mod area wasn't updated for a long time.

Ok, let me see here. This mod is designed and limited to deleting people who have an unactivated account and NEVER activated it. This is on purpose to prevent users who may have temporarily been deactivated from being deleted by the mod.

While I can imagine that you might decide to ban a user who never activated their account, this seems a bit weird to me since how would you know they were a spammer if they never posted anything (since presumably you don't allow non-activated user to post to the forum). So anyone on a banned list is almost certainly normally going to be an activated user at some point, so the mod doesn't apply to them and wouldn't delete them by design. The mod is mostly designed to blow away in one shot the large numbers of spammer registrations that get done all the time by bots but never get activated.

I'll probably post the 2.0 version for publication now that things have returned to normal here.
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