Automatically Delete Discarded Stories

[netirca]

Hello all,

I have a ton of discarded stories every day, is there a way to run admin_delete_stories.php automatically every 2-3 hrs? I tried setting it up as a cron job via my hosting admin but it would not run properly for some reason (maybe it has something to do with admin authentication?)

Thanks.

[Yankidank]

My suggestion is to...

1. Create a new file with a random file name in your /admin directory.
2. Paste in the contents of the admin_delete_stories.php file.
3. Remove lines 11-23 (pasted below)

check_referrer();

// require user to log in
force_authentication();

// restrict access to god only
$canIhaveAccess = 0;
$canIhaveAccess = $canIhaveAccess + checklevel('god');

if($canIhaveAccess == 0){    
    header("Location: " . getmyurl('login', $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']));
    die();
}

4. Save the file and you should now be able to run it with a cron job.

I haven't tried it myself, but I think those are the lines that make you authenticate as an admin user in order to run the file.