vBulletin LTS

vBulletins schedule tasks only run when a user is browsing your forum. With the release of 3.6 and RSS imports this has caused problems for slow moving forums importing fast moving RSS feeds (If a news item passes fully through the RSS feed before a visitor browses your forums causing the import to be processed then content could be lost)

If your host supports "Cron Jobs" you can call the attached PHP file periodically to force vBulletin to catch up with its internal scheduled tasks.

1. Download the attached file and edit the variables at the top to match your forum installation
2. Upload the file to somewhere on your host
3. Schedule this file to run at an appropriate interval

eg. (to run every hour at 15m past the hour, 12:15 - 13:15 - 14:15 - etc.)

Code:

15 * * * * /usr/bin/php -f /home/myuser/exec-cron.php >/dev/null 2>&1

Unfortunatly running the cron.php from the vBulletin files will only process the next pending single task, This short script simply queries the scheduled task database to count how many tasks are pending, it then calls the cron.php routine that number of times - thus your scheduled tasks are kept up to date.

This is my first ever PHP script so please don't expect a masterpiece from a rocket scientist, if anyone has any comments or suggestions please drop me a PM