Locking topics in trade section

[KaiReborn]

Seeing how some people are stupid and won't bother checking dates posts are made or the last time the original post was edited (or both), I'd like to suggest topics in trade section to be automatically locked after a certain time of inactivity (2-3 months) in order to avoid necroposting

 

[Jinga]

+1, many people are stupid and don't even bother to look the time last post (especially in trades).

 

[Jinji]

Believe me, you guys would not be the first to ask for this. Even we Staff want it. But phpBB does not by default support an "auto-lock" feature.

 

[Lutalica]

Ask Nikola, he did that on his froum. It needs to be coded though

 

[Julio~]

Customer extensions are available on the phpBB forum.

 

[Nikola]

That's simple. You want to target certain forum ID and apply the code something like this below where before you need to determinate the value such as days before topic gets locked.

$sql = 'UPDATE ' . topics_tabel. "
         SET topic_status = 1
         WHERE topic_id = $topic_id";
      $db->sql_query($sql);
      
      add_log('mod', $forum_id, $topic_id, 'LOG_' . 'LOCK', $topic_titel);
      trigger_error('This thread is older than XX days, It's about to get locked. Please create your own topic and do not revive dead topics.');
   }
}

- This system can be applied on many ways such as "Shop" forums. You may want to give the ability to OP only to bypass the lock you are adding if time ran out, given that you don't want many duped topics especially in shop forum and so on.