UBB.Developers Forums UBB.classic V6 Mod Questions Deletind Closed topics

Is there a hack for Deleting Closed topics from the control page for the versie UBB
6.02???

this is a very good idea!

Please re-explain the suggestion.

ok in the control panel what you would do is when you goto prune topic there would be a check box that says "Delete Closed Topic"

or a pull down menu were you can choose wich section to delete closed topics from

then click submit and it would delete all closed topics in that forum or the whole ubb

This would be very handy

YES Mr.Clean thats what i mean!!!

this can be done! it doesent seem too hard! i think someone could make this! Charles how about you?

That would require going through each thread in the forum.

Bad Idea.

Why Bad Idea Charles Capps ????

Example. board has tens of thousands of posts, that would be very very bad on server performance and you'd probably be kicked off your hosting account from your provider if you aren't on a dedicated server.

and is there nothing else that works for it ??

Not at the moment.

Charles, there is an easy way to do this without the extensive server load that goes along with searching each thread.

It would be little problem to add a routine to add the thread number to a log when you close the thread in the first place. Then if you open it back up, it removes that entry from the log.

Then just add the routine to prune closed threads by forum... which would read in the list of closed threads from that file (ie closed$forum_number.cgi). It would del the threads and delete the required entries from the closed logfile.

That would not require searching all files and would DRASTICALLY reduce server load.

If anyone is still interested in this i will code it, shouldnt be a problem at all.

CC, you got any feedback on this?

[ June 14, 2001 07:12 AM: Message edited by: Section ]

i am still interested in it!!!

ok, writing it is not a problem but i will be going out of town for the weekend so it wont be until sometime next week that i will have time.

Hold off until 6.1.0, Section... There may or may not be something that will make writing this thing much easier.

Any chance you would wanna fill me in on what would make it easier? If you are planning to add this feature into 6.1, ill hold off, but otherwise i will probably go ahead & write it this week when i get a chance.

It is being done for 6.1, but we don't yet know to what extent, or what it will include or require... It will be a performance optimization, nothing that end-users will see.