Web and email hosting - CHAPTER 10 SECURING AND MAINTAINING PHPBB 323
CHAPTER 10 SECURING AND MAINTAINING PHPBB 323 Pruning Forums The updated forum pruning utility is illustrated in Figure 10-24. Note some of the new features it offers. Figure 10-24. phpBB 3.0 s pruning utility, operating on Test Forum 1 In Figure 10-24, I ve selected Test Forum 1 as the forum I want to prune. You ll notice that phpBB 3.0 now permits you to prune old announcements and sticky topics, in addition to the regular topics. Previously, phpBB did not permit you to prune such topics. You can also prune topics by last view time, so that topics that no one reads can also go by the wayside. These options are also available when setting up automatic pruning in the forum s options. Pruning Users phpBB 3.0 introduces the option to prune inactive users. See Figure 10-25 for an illustration of this new utility. You have a number of criteria to choose from, all of which can be combined. You can target specific usernames and e-mail addresses for pruning, or do mass-pruning of users based on last activity, join date, or post count. You have the option to simply deactivate accounts that the pruning utility finds, so that no data is lost. And, if you need to shrink the database, you can remove the accounts entirely. Caution Deleting accounts is permanent. Have a backup handy if you use the prune feature to remove users!
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