Backup your database first to be safe.

1) Query the DB to see how many members will allow the Admin to send them bulk emails.

SELECT COUNT(*) FROM w3t_Users WHERE U_AdminEmails='On'

2) Query to set all users to the default aged threads to be displayed (what is set per forum as that forum's default).

UPDATE w3t_Users
SET U_ActiveThread = "999"

3) Query to set all users to the default parent posts per page shown.

UPDATE w3t_Users
SET U_PostsPer = "10"

4) Query to set all users to the default total posts per page shown (when in flat mode).

UPDATE w3t_Users
SET U_FlatPosts = "10"

5) Query to allow all members to receive email from admins.

UPDATE w3t_Users SET U_AdminEmails = 'On' WHERE U_Number > 1

6) Query to set all members to receive an email notification when they receive a private message.

UPDATE w3t_Users
SET U_Notify = 'On'

7) Query to change the displayed date that a post was made.

UPDATE w3t_Posts SET B_Posted = UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2003-06-14 20:05:00') WHERE B_Number = 123456

Note: Depending on whether it's the last post in a thread or board, you'd have to do similar updates for the main post in the thread and the board that contains the thread.

8) Query to make ALL forums members only.

UPDATE w3t_Boards
SET Bo_Read_Perm = '-1-2-3-', Bo_Write_Perm = '-1-2-3-', Bo_Reply_Perm = '-1-2-3-'

"But if you have any boards that are only supposed to be accessible to admins, mods or other special groups, their permissions would get reset, unless you add an appropriate WHERE clause. "

9) Query to delete all users that have not logged-in since they registered. Submitted by Akd96

DELETE FROM w3t_Users WHERE `U_Laston` = `U_Registered`

10) Query to Update All Users to use the default stylesheet that you've defined in the Theme file Submitted by JoshPet

UPDATE w3t_Users
SET U_StyleSheet = 'usedefault'

11) Query to manually approve a user if the user hasn't verified the account yet.

UPDATE w3t_Users SET U_Approved='yes' WHERE U_Username='whatever'

(whatever would be the username)



Thanks to all who have posted these in the past. (Dave_L, Rick, me, etc... ) and to Mr.CSS for the idea.

Can you give me a command to:

delete all pm's made in the last day, or a certain day, or that contain a certain word?

The command below where given to me in the past...

SELECT DISTINCT B_IP
FROM w3t_Posts
WHERE B_PosterID = $User (replace user's user Number)

that gives all the IP's a user has posted under.

SELECT U_RegIP
FROM w3t_Users
WHERE U_Number = $User (replace user's user Number)

that gives you the IP the person registered with.

SELECT B_PosterID
FROM w3t_Posts
WHERE B_IP = 'xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx' (replace IP number here)

that gives you all the people who have posted under a particular IP address. It's usually more helpful if you chop off a couple of the last numbers and use '%' at the end, so it will pull a slightly larger range of IP's.

I helped you with this - as it was a bit more complicated than that as the user had already been deleted.

Since all the PMs were already changed to user #1 - had to do a query like this:

DELETE FROM w3t_Messages
WHERE M_Subject LIKE 'the subject here'

Had the user not been deleted, then we could have done

DELETE FROM w3t_Messages
WHERE M_Sender = $user (replace user's user number)


However, all the people that had PMs will still flash that they have a pm, but when they view the list of private messages, the counter will get reset and the flashing will stop. So it may confuse the users a bit looking for a PM that they don't have. But in your case of 6000+ spam PMs... there was really no other easy way.

how do I update all users with 100+ posts to a new usergroup?

I'm using your pm restrictor mod and I'm using a usergroup that not many people are a part of - works for the new people, not the old people

OK -

Something like this:

UPDATE w3t_Users
SET U_Groups = '-3-5-'
WHERE U_Totalposts > 100
AND U_Status = 'User'


Note: That will change whatever user groups that they had - to -3- (the user group) and -5- (or whatever other group you need).

If you need to append the new user group to what they have.... I'm nor sure exactly what needs to be done. I'd write a little script for it. (Contact me and I'll help you AA).

RandyJG posted here about the use of CONCAT but I'm not familiar with it myself.

thank you, that covered it close enough for what we needed

Nice one Josh, lots of good stuff there!

One question, how do you reverse No.8 and change it so that all guests can view all the forums?

Cheers
Hugh

Change the desired permission strings from '-1-2-3-' to '-1-2-3-4-'. The same disclaimer applies. That will change the permissions for all the forums unless you qualify the query with an appropriate WHERE clause. It also doesn't take into account any custom groups (5, 6, etc.) that you may have added.

Top stuff, thanks Dave!

This is a nice compilation of useful queries. I made a script which shows them all and made a link to it from the admin menu. But since saving queries is a part of 6.4 I'm guessing it might not be of use for anybody?

I also have a question about deleting users who have never logged in, will this leave traces of them in other tables? If so, it might be better to change the purgeusers script so that it is possible to select whether to only delete users who have never logged in instead.

I think that if a user has never logged in, then there will only be rows in two tables: w3t_Users and w3t_Messages (the welcome message).

OK, that sounds good, I could probably check it out a bit before I do the actual removing. Does someone have a script or query to remove orphan rows in w3t_Messages?

Other that would ben ice to know

How to delete all PM's older than 30 days

How to delete all pm's that have a certain word in them

How to replace / change a pm a user sent to all members

How to make all visitors make a donation or purchase a subscription :-)

How to delete all PM's older than 30 days

DELETE FROM w3t_Messages WHERE M_Sent < UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2003-10-16')

(This will delete all PM:s sent before the given date, which is in the format YYYY-MM-DD.)

DELETE FROM w3t_Messages WHERE M_Sent < UNIX_TIMESTAMP( DATE_SUB(CURDATE(), INTERVAL 1 MONTH) )

(This should delete all PM:s that are older than 1 month, regardless of what date it is.)

How to delete all pm's that have a certain word in them

DELETE FROM w3t_Messages WHERE M_Message LIKE '%yourwordhere%'

(This will remove all PM:s where the word exists, regardless of if it's only part of a word.)

How to replace / change a pm a user sent to all members

UPDATE w3t_Messages SET M_Message = 'Your new message' WHERE M_Subject = 'Subject of your PM' AND M_Sender = 2

(All PM:s sent by user number 2 will have the message replaced with the new message.)

How to make all visitors make a donation or purchase a subscription :-)

UPDATE w3t_Users SET U_Donation = 'yes'


Disclaimer: Please make a backup of your database before trying of any of these queries. Also, change "w3t_" to whatever you have set as your database prefix. Some queries might not work in all versions of UBB.threads.

Thank you very much.
The last one may need some further tweaking :-)

Is there a way to delete all posts made by a user in the past day, two days, 10 days?

DELETE FROM w3t_Messages WHERE M_Uid = userid AND M_Sent > UNIX_TIMESTAMP( DATE_SUB(CURDATE(), INTERVAL 1 DAY) )

Change userid to the U_Number of the user you want to remove messages from. Change 1 to how many days you want to remove from.

If you want to go by username, and you are running MySQL 4, you could do this:

DELETE w3t_Messages FROM w3t_Messages AS m, w3t_Users AS u WHERE m.M_Uid = u.U_Number AND u.U_Username = 'Gardener' AND M_Sent > UNIX_TIMESTAMP( DATE_SUB(CURDATE(), INTERVAL 10 DAY) )

As always, please do a backup of your data before running these queries. Don't want you to loose anything because of a spelling mistake of mine or something.

For everyone using this stuff: I will stress EXTREME Caution with deleting stuff manually in the Database and would instead encourage you to use built in tools for deleting stuff.

Particularly Users, Posts, Groups etc.... never delete them directly unless you know all the other stuff that needs to be updated as well. Check the admin scripts that delete users/posts etc... to see what other stuff needs to be updated as well.

If you delete the wrong stuff it can cause threads/forums or more to simply not appear properly, as JOINs can not match up.

So excercise EXTREME caution when doing SQL Queries directly in the Database, as they are usually unreversable and/or can take hours to diagnose/fix if stuff gets out of wack.

That is very true. Also, don't forget to do a backup if you do decide to change anything. I know people who have deleted the entire basis of a company by having a < the wrong way and no proper backups. Well, they managed to fix it in the end by hiring Microsoft consultants from abroad which costed $$$++.

I do agree with the warning.
I was playing with the commands, did not back up, and ended up deleting all trace, all posts, and all pm's made by our top poster :-( and who knows what else :-)

Backing up and restoring is not very easy either.
I had a back up at the server (have to hard disks, the second for backup every 12 hours) but it was of no use... before I could get in touch with my isp, before they answered, before i confirmed, and so on... it may take a couple of days...

Could have been worst :-)

I would like to know how to change the number of posts and the registration date of a member

Thanks

UPDATE w3t_Users
SET U_Totalposts = 'NEWTOTALHERE'
WHERE U_Username = 'USERNAMEHERE'

UPDATE w3t_Users
SET U_Registered = UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2003-10-16')
WHERE U_Username = 'USERNAMEHERE'

Change the date to what you want

Thanks.
Tryed that but did not work.
Is it the same if username and displayed name are not the same?

also... is there a way to show the real number of posts for a user... this user had a problem and the number of posts changed... would really like to show the reasl number of posts

What would a query be to look up people who have registered but not yet verified their e-mail addies to be real?

U_Username is DisplayName

U_LoginName is the loginname

Those queries above will do exactly what you asked for. You say they dont what is the error you get. You can also suppliment the WHERE U_Username = 'USERNAMEHERE' to WHERE U_Number = 'usernumberhere' Make sure you are not forgetting the slashes around the name or number in the where clause.

As far as getting a post count

SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM w3t_Posts
WHERE B_PosterId ='USERNUMBERHERE'

Then to update the users total

UPDATE w3t_Users
SET U_TotalPosts = 'TOTALHERE'
WHERE U_Number = 'USERNUMBERHERE'

Which query would I need to change the url in U_Picture (Users) ?

Example "http://www.domain1.com/forum/userpics/2.jpg"

should be changed in

Example "http://www.name2.com/forum/userpics/2.jpg"

Thanks!

You changed the config avatar directory in the setup? This is the directory where pictures are.

No the URL to the avatar is stored in U_Picture - the value in the config file is just for uploads and used when it's being stored.

This should do it:

UPDATE w3t_Users
SET U_Picture = 'http://whatever/what/userpic/2.jpg'
WHERE U_Number = xxx

Put the usernumber of xxx

Thanks Josh, but your query would not do the trick for me..

I want to change the picture URL for all users, so I only need to change "domain1.com" to "name2.com".

you need a query that first grabs the link from the database in a query and then pulls the substring of the first domain and inserts the substring of the second domain and then inserts that into the database... but thats a little dangerous if not used correctly..

This will do what you want Pasqualist and is courtesy of Master Scream when I asked him about this issue a while back.

Now this query is mostly for those wanting to update their forums from UBB to Threads and change links in the post bodies as this is where this issue is likely to occur.

UPDATE w3t_Posts SET B_Body = REPLACE(B_Body, 'cgi-bin/ubb','ubbthreads')

Now you can change this query to suit your needs by doing the following to it.

UPDATE w3t_Users SET U_Picture = REPLACE(U_Picture, 'www.domain1.com','www.name2.com')

Now remember to backup your database before doing this but I have ran the first query on my install and it worked fine. It should automatically update the part of the string you want.

even better

LOL Yeah I had asked the MASTER a while back as I still had links in posts to my old ubb install graemlins etc

forgot all about the mysql REPLACE command

Ok....I have a request since I'm in the "throws" of re-installing.

Would it be possible to repost something as an ADMIN (with the boards closed) and then change the ADMIN association to the original poster? This is so I can re-post threads lost with my ... huhummm... re-installation?

Thanks,
Patrice

think it's easier to log in as the user... you can switch to them in the admin panel... problem is boards would have to be open not closed..

If your missing threads from your threads database after the install of your UBB classic database conversion that malfunctioned after an import and the board went down after running threads for a few days then you can use PhpMyAdmin to input users and posts after the original conversion.

I take it now you have a correct conversion running. Just use PHPMYADMIN to import any new users into Threads that are missing from your last Threads backup when it was working before it crashed.

You then can do the same thing with the posts table.

INSERT INTO `w3t_Users` VALUES ( blah blah blah);

INSERT INTO `w3t_Posts` VALUES ( blah blah blah);

Your backups when you compare should guide you further where the cutoff is. Problem is if you opened your board back up now after the second import then you cant do this as post numbers and user numbers will have been used that you are trying to import.

yeah but Omego the way it sounds..

[]
Would it be possible to repost something as an ADMIN (with the boards closed) and then change the ADMIN association to the original poster? This is so I can re-post threads lost with my ... huhummm... re-installation?
[/]

is that she wants to post those lost as herself then go in later and change the name of who posted it to the original person cause she lost them...

If she lost the posts and does not have a backup to do what I am saying then how is she going to know what to post to do what your saying

See my point.

Glutton for punishment. My solution. Probably not the best, but it got the job done. I ended up make all the forums "read-only" with admin and MODERATOR read/write. Made the user a temporary moderator, logged in as them and reposted their thread and demoted them. I'm cross-eyed, but it's done. Whew. Think I'll BACK IT UP now!

-Patrice

You did the things the hard way. Reporting one thread at a time. You could have inserted the new posts via PHPMYADMIN in one step.

Believe me. It would have taken ME longer to do that and then fix what I screwed up doing that...right now I'm a bit gun shy. I knew that I couldn't screw things up too bad this way. Me and sleep deprivation are a dangerous mix. Stupidity abounds! Thanks anyway!

What query would I need to find out who all belongs to a certain group?

oops... Never mind.... lol Figured out I could do it from the AP.....

I'd like to know that question. I demoted a moderator and it still showed him in group "2" and he could still read the forums in the admin section. I ran a querie to make his groups right but I can't seem to figure out the correct querie to see if anyone else is in that group that isn't supposed to be.

SELECT `U_Username` , `U_Groups`
FROM `w3t_Users`
WHERE `U_Groups`
LIKE "%-2-%"

change the FROM `w3t_Users`
to your table extension, mine's w3t_
also change the %-2-% to whichever group your looking for.

Thanks!

My glasses need cleaning again? Is there a query to run that I can input an IP and find out who all (Username or Login Name) has been using that particular IP?

Thanks...

SELECT `U_Username`, `U_Group`, `U_RegIP`, `B_IP`, `B_PosterId`
FROM `w3t_Posts`, `w3t_Users`
WHERE (((`B_IP` = '192.168.1.1') AND (`B_PosterId` = `U_Number`)) OR (`B_IP` = '192.168.1.1'))

change I192.168.1.1 to what your loking for
and then stand back cause on large boards this MAY time out since it will go through all the posts looking for IP addresses of the poster and matching that up where it can to the User and if an anon it won;t spit out a Username.

I ran this query and it came up with errors:

SELECT `U_Username`, `U_Group`, `U_RegIP`, `B_IP`, `B_PosterId`
FROM `w3t_Posts`, `w3t_Users`
WHERE (((`B_IP` = '199.253.23.1') AND (`B_PosterId` = `U_Number`)) OR (`B_IP` = '199.253.23.1'))

The IP listed is the one in question from my site.

Here are the errors that were returned:

SQL ERROR: Unable to do_query: SELECT `U_Username`, `U_Group`, `U_RegIP`, `B_IP`, `B_PosterId` FROM `w3t_Posts`, `w3t_Users` WHERE (((`B_IP` = '199.253.23.1') AND (`B_PosterId` = `U_Number`)) OR (`B_IP` = '199.253.23.1'))
Unknown column 'U_Group' in 'field list'
Warning: mysql_num_fields(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/smoknz28/public_html/ubbthreads/mysql.inc.php on line 167

Warning: mysql_fetch_array(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/smoknz28/public_html/ubbthreads/mysql.inc.php on line 133

SELECT `U_Username`, `U_Groups`, `U_RegIP`, `B_IP`, `B_PosterId`
FROM `w3t_Posts`, `w3t_Users`
WHERE (((`B_IP` = '199.253.23.1') AND (`B_PosterId` = `U_Number`)) OR (`B_IP` = '199.253.23.1'))


sorry I typoed.. U_Group should be U_Groups

I've got a question:

I imported a ubb.classic to threads. Because of an issue with custom forum headers I needed to empty the posts table and re-import them. Now all posts have the person who posted the message as 'unregistered':

http://www.praisecafe.org/forum/ubbthreads.php

Is there a way to re-associate the poster within the post with the actual user profile?

note: this is a test forum, we plan to do this actually on a live site for someone else...

Not sure how that can be done on a large scale. But to do it individually to a post - this is the query to use:

UPDATE w3t_Posts
SET B_Reged = 'y',
B_PosterId = number


B_Reged is set to 'y' for "yes" meaning they are registered and B_PosterId is the user number.

The name is being stored in the B_AnonName field - I'm not sure if there's a way to do a query which matches them up and would let you update the whole thing at a time.

Allen - untested, but name the attached .php and put it in your threads directory - and give it a run. See if it updates the posts to match the user database.

Done! 3 post records updated!

Thanks, not sure why it's only fixing 3 Maybe the posters aren't 'anon', just unregged, sorta like someone who gets banned or deleted?

OK - so it kinda worked but didn't update everything. Let me tweak it a bit.

Allen - alter the first query to be like this:



See if that does more.

Done! 29763 post records updated!



OK, it works... if I try it on the other site with 400k posts it might kill the server, I'll give it a shot late at night

he he
Yeah, it's not exactly "efficient" - but it works.

If the above times out - it shouldn't hurt to simply run it again - as each time it's grabbing anonymous posts and processing them. So if you have to rerun it, it'll just keep picking anonymous posts and looking up the user.


Also - the last little tidbit will be to update post counts (counting up all their posts) so that their profile is correct. I'll make you a separate little script for that. So that after you're done, you can run that and then the user's post counts will be correct.

Allen - try this script (untested) to update everyone's post counts.

sweet, worked real well

How about a query that will pull all users that have posted in the past X number of days?

You want fries and a coke with that

SELECT t2.U_Username
FROM w3t_Posts AS t1
LEFT JOIN w3t_Users AS t2 ON t1.B_PosterId = t2.U_Number
WHERE B_Posted > UNIX_TIMESTAMP( DATE_SUB( CURDATE( ) , INTERVAL 1
MONTH ) )
GROUP BY t2.U_Username ASC

Change the interval to whatever you want

3 DAY
7 DAY
15 DAY
1 WEEK
3 WEEK
6 WEEK
2 MONTH
6 MONTH
etc etc

w00t! You da man!

I want to write a query that will delete all threads that were either closed or moved over a month ago. Here is what I have come up with:



Is this all correct?

Question.. whatif there is a poll in one of those posts.. won't that mess up the poll tables?

So I guess I'd have to make a script out of it then, so it can look for polls and purge the corresponding tables? But without that, it would just leave orphaned tables though, right? No harm but taking up space, right?

Yeah, I wouldn't manually delete posts - there are several other things which need adjusting and mismatched post counts to board totals and post totals are exactly what cause that blank page issue you have from time to time.

Study the scripts which expire or delete the threads - and you'll see the stuff that needs to be deleted as well.

Off the top of my head:

- Adjust the post/thread count in the boards table.
- Any users who have those threads as their favorites
- Anybody with post reminders to those threads
- Polls, their options and results attached to those posts
- File attached to those posts

You don't want all that stuff to get out of sync.
There might be more - just thinking out loud.

As Josh suggested study the expire files real well to see everything that transpires.

Has anyone ever written a script to automate adding new users or adding a long list of users in one fell swoop?

We've got a bunch of users from a newsgroup and would like to move the entire group to ubb.threads but adding users one by one is drudgery.

Seems like it'd be possible to figure out by analyzing the addusers.php file line by line but just wondering if anyone's tried it.

You could add the users and give them all the same generic password which they could then change using an INSERT but all the other options that basically get entered also would suffer the same fate as the password. Easier to setup the board and let the user himself register himself.

We'd like to keep the board ultra-secure/private so I've deleted the New User button and am being the doorman.

We've already got old user info/password hashes in mysql, and would like to just transfer this old mysql database to ubb.threads.

Seems like there's a lot more involved than just the w3t_users table when creating new users though. If anybody's got any idea of the web of chain mysql reactions that goes into creating a new user, please give a honk.

Just take a look at Adduser.php its all there

also take a look at this mod

https://www.ubbdev.com/forum/showflat.php/Number/104373

Wow, that mod rocks and does most of the job.

Thanks scroungr!

Here is one I need help with. I did some major group re-structuring last week, and a few dozen people (maybe more) are now not part of any group, not even the default "Users"

This causes them to get mysql errors when trying to browse the forums, since they aren't in a group so they get weird errors.

I want a query to find these users who do not have a group assigned so I can fix their accounts. And even better, another query to automatically search for someone without a group, and if they don't have one they are assigned to the Users group.

Select * from w3t_Users where U_Groups = "" or U_Groups is NULL or U_Groups = "--"

That should grab all users with empty groups. The last one shouldn't be necessary.

yeah then do an

UPDATE w3t_Users SET U_Groups = "-4-" WHERE U_Groups = "" or U_Groups is NULL or U_Groups = "--"

Thx, forgot to write up the update statement.

Thanks, you guys rock

TOP posters from any forum (here 'hp')

SELECT t1.B_PosterId,t2.U_Username,count(*) AS liczba
FROM w3t_Posts AS t1,w3t_Users AS t2
WHERE t1.B_PosterId = t2.U_Number
AND t1.B_Board = "hp"
GROUP BY t1.B_PosterId
ORDER BY liczba desc

How would I find out what languages my members are using?
so that when I upgrade I know what ones I can dump.

SELECT DISTINCT U_Language FROM w3t_Users

Thanks

Ok, I have now decided to turn OFF display names, but some users still have display names in the DB...

What would be the query to change everyone's display name to their login names? (So they are both the same)

?
UPDATE w3t_Users
SET U_Username = U_LoginName

Although I'm not sure if that will pull their U_LoginName, or will actually give everyone the literal display name of "U_LoginName" so I wouldn't really recommend trying it.

I need a Query to reset everyones name color to the default "Normal" How would this be done?

well what is normal ? heh BUT you can try

UPDATE w3t_Users SET U_Color = ''

If you want to make the color of the names the default color you have to type "Normal" into the color section. It will make them the forum default.

So my guess is to do...
UPDATE w3t_Users SET U_Color = 'normal'
(could be worng though. dont run that unless you ask someone)

has to be normal? thought it could be empty? they change it? if it has to be normal then yes DrChaos is chaotically correct

I said I could be wrong

I canged a few and just removed the name of the color where edit the user and nothing happend.

then one of my admins said to try to put "normal", because that what all the regular users are set to, and it worked.

well then you are right now wrong and I am wrong not right so glad to meet ya

Can anyone tell me the query to require all users to review the Forum Rules and accept or reject on their next visit to the board?

It's that time

Using the Force Rules mod?

UPDATE w3t_Users
SET U_Agree = 0

Thanks Josh,I didnt know there was a Mod for that.

Anyone get brave enough to try this out?

[] ?
UPDATE w3t_Users
SET U_Username = U_LoginName

Although I'm not sure if that will pull their U_LoginName, or will actually give everyone the literal display name of "U_LoginName" so I wouldn't really recommend trying it. [/]

I have a bunch of users who I need to make their eamil / fake email and user name / display name all match. A SQL call like this would save me a lot of time

P-

>UPDATE w3t_Users
>SET U_Username = U_LoginName
>Although I'm not sure if that will pull their U_LoginName, or will actually give everyone the
>literal display name of "U_LoginName" so I wouldn't really recommend trying it.

Test it with one name first.

UPDATE w3t_Users
SET U_Username = U_LoginName
WHERE U_Number= 124124

124124 = your user number

Good idea

I ran the follwing query through MyPHPAdmin and it worked...

UPDATE w3t_Users
SET `U_Username` = `U_LoginName`

Thanks Anno

P-

Here is the old query by RandyJG that JoshPet used in the Stylesheet Popularity mod. Since we have been able to store queries in the past couple of versions, the mod is no longer needed, but the query could still be helpful...

How do I access a list of all of my users e-mail address? Can this be done with a query?

SELECT U_RegEmail, U_Email, U_Fakeemail FROM w3t_Users;

Worked a treat, thank you

Select U_Email from w3t_Users where u_number > 1;

How about a script to show user ID's that have been created from the same IP address, even if you dont know the IP address?

[]JoshPet said:
Using the Force Rules mod?

UPDATE w3t_Users
SET U_Agree = 0 [/]

This one no longer seems to work on 6.5.. is there a new way of doing this?

Ta

What would the script be to reset/update all users to no avatar?

UPDATE w3t_Users SET U_Picture = ''

I am wondering if anyone could help out with a query to basically duplicate a group under another name? I have about 5000 members and we're looking for a simple way to plan one heck of a going away party for one of our members without his knowledge. It would seem that this could be easily done by creating a new group and adding all members in the "users" group to this new group.... and then removing our guest of honor from the new group so he wouldn't have permissions to see our "hidden" party planning forum.

Any ideas? I've played with doing this manually, a couple members at a time, but it is rediculously slow going.

version of threads would be helpful since...most versions can do it already at least 6.4 and 6.5 by just adding a new user group and then selecting everyone in user group and adding them to new group?

6.4.1

I've already tried to do this through the AP using the "mass group change" but if I try to do any more then 4 or 5 members at a time it just grinds to a halt.

I need a query to do the following:

List all usernames + email adresses + number of PM's in their inbox from users with more than 2 PM's in their INBOX

How?

Ok, I think I got it, but I'm not 100% if this is correct:


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

SELECT w3t_Users.U_Email,
w3t_Users.U_LoginName,
w3t_Users.U_Username,
COUNT(w3t_Messages.M_Uid)
FROM w3t_Messages, w3t_Users
GROUP BY w3t_Users.U_Number
HAVING COUNT(w3t_Messages.M_uid) > 2

I tried to run this, but my browser seemed to hang. I cancelled the query after 20 minuten (my whole database is only 40mb).

What am I doing wrong here ?

To delete pm's (like all those welcome pm's that re-appear after upgrading), try these commands:


Change the topic subject wording to whatever you send to new registered members.

There's still the ubbt_PRIVATE_MESSAGE_USERS table - I imagine a script would need to be written to match the pm with the topic id being deleted above and clean that out too.

This is what I do:

I get a list of Users who have less than 50 posts and have done a rating on somebedy.

I also get the name of the user who rated but I don't know how to get the name of the user who WAS rated (R_What is user ID).

Can anyone provide me with solution?

Next question is how to update U_Rating, U_Rates, U_RealRating to match values in R_Rating?

Of course without having to write a script but rathrer running a query

What version are you running?

6.5.5

I'll write the script but I would like to learn how to do it via sql if possible

You are querying for R_What - that's not giving you the result you are looking for?

This really isn't quite a mod, but may help those wanting to increase activity on their sites. Currently it's a bit of a jump through the hoops to get emails for watched topics and forums - I've repeatedly had to tell people the couple of things they have to do to get emails.

Here's the mysql commands you put into your SQL Command window to set everyone to receive emails for replies to any topics they are watching:



and if you also want to set all users to receive email when they get a pm, use this one:


And lastly, if you want all users to receive emails from admins, then use this one:


note: the last one might get a few complaints since I believe it specifically is set by the user to opt out, I may be wrong - it's been a while since I was a newbie

In addition to those commands from Allen, I would strongly recommend editing all your emails that go out - at the moment they are very weak, and do not let the user know how to unsubscribe from the email that they have just received.

For example my notification of a PM says...


Nothing elaborate - but it gets around anyone accusing us of spamming them.

And all my emails have the subject starting...

FansFocus.Com: