Comments on: Pruning Users http://www.phpbbdoctor.com/blog/2006/10/28/pruning-users/ Your premium source for custom modification services for phpBB Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:39:04 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: dave.rathbun http://www.phpbbdoctor.com/blog/2006/10/28/pruning-users/comment-page-1/#comment-337 dave.rathbun Mon, 30 Oct 2006 17:34:34 +0000 http://www.phpbbdoctor.com/blog/?p=28#comment-337 The log is more for research than anything else. For example, I have a board that has been running for 4+ years. I have a perl script that removes users that have not activated their account within 30 days. This all happens automatically, but I do not 100% trust that the code will never fail. :-) As a result, I write a log file. Now suppose that someone comes to the site and complains that their account was removed. If there was never a record that they even registered, I have no way to track down their issue. But in this case the first thing I do is check the phpbb_users table to see if they're there, perhaps under a different email address or username. Next, if they're not there, I look at my "purge log" and see if they had been deleted by the automatic process. If so, then I can tell them that yes, they had registered, but they had never activated their account and therefore were removed as per our rules. Without the log, I would not be able to tell them that. I am adapting the same idea to the log behind the pruning users MOD, which - sans logging - is already in use at another site that I run. So the code is completed except for the logging piece. Thanks for your comment. 8) The log is more for research than anything else.

For example, I have a board that has been running for 4+ years. I have a perl script that removes users that have not activated their account within 30 days. This all happens automatically, but I do not 100% trust that the code will never fail. :-) As a result, I write a log file.

Now suppose that someone comes to the site and complains that their account was removed. If there was never a record that they even registered, I have no way to track down their issue. But in this case the first thing I do is check the phpbb_users table to see if they’re there, perhaps under a different email address or username. Next, if they’re not there, I look at my “purge log” and see if they had been deleted by the automatic process. If so, then I can tell them that yes, they had registered, but they had never activated their account and therefore were removed as per our rules.

Without the log, I would not be able to tell them that.

I am adapting the same idea to the log behind the pruning users MOD, which – sans logging – is already in use at another site that I run. So the code is completed except for the logging piece.

Thanks for your comment. 8)

]]> By: eviL<3 http://www.phpbbdoctor.com/blog/2006/10/28/pruning-users/comment-page-1/#comment-323 eviL<3 Sun, 29 Oct 2006 18:40:39 +0000 http://www.phpbbdoctor.com/blog/?p=28#comment-323 I had already seen that MOD, already before it was discontinued (and then recontinued). I also find it an important thing, and i usually just remove inactive users on regular basis (i have a great MOD for that). But i didn't know about the log function (is it a new idea of yours?) yet. Sounds like a good idea, and as you mentioned you'd like to be able to track members who return, how about the ability to have a reason? Of course admin-only, so if a member asks, you can tell him excactly why he was deleted. (Not to spam, but) This sounds a little like my ban reasons MOD (my idea), just for deleting users. Looking forward to see this project come along ;) I had already seen that MOD, already before it was discontinued (and then recontinued). I also find it an important thing, and i usually just remove inactive users on regular basis (i have a great MOD for that).
But i didn’t know about the log function (is it a new idea of yours?) yet. Sounds like a good idea, and as you mentioned you’d like to be able to track members who return, how about the ability to have a reason? Of course admin-only, so if a member asks, you can tell him excactly why he was deleted. (Not to spam, but) This sounds a little like my ban reasons MOD (my idea), just for deleting users.
Looking forward to see this project come along ;)

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