Hi. This si not a true plugin – just a stupid script for removing “deleted” topics and posts from the DB. Thanks in advance for any feedback.

$link=mysql_connect("host","user","password");

mysql_select_db("database");

//delete topics metadata

$res=mysql_query("SELECT topic_id FROM bb_topics WHERE topic_status>0;") or die(mysql_error());

while($row=mysql_fetch_row($res)) {

mysql_query("DELETE bb_meta.* FROM bb_meta WHERE object_type='bb_topic' AND object_id=$row[0];") or die(mysql_error());

};

mysql_free_result($res);



//delete posts metadata

$res=mysql_query("SELECT post_id FROM bb_posts WHERE post_status>0;") or die(mysql_error());

while($row=mysql_fetch_row($res)) {

mysql_query("DELETE bb_meta.* FROM bb_meta WHERE object_type='bb_post' AND object_id=$row[0];") or die(mysql_error());

};

mysql_free_result($res);



//delete topics & posts

mysql_query("DELETE bb_topics.* FROM bb_topics WHERE topic_status>0;") or die(mysql_error());

mysql_query("DELETE bb_posts.* FROM bb_posts WHERE post_status>0;") or die(mysql_error());

mysql_query("DELETE bb_meta.* FROM bb_meta WHERE meta_key='deleted_posts';") or die(mysql_error());



//some extras - attempt to "correct" autoincrement

$row=mysql_fetch_row(mysql_query("SELECT MAX(topic_id) FROM bb_topics;"));

if($row[0]!="") {

$correct=$row[0];

}

else {

$correct=1;

};

mysql_query("ALTER TABLE bb_topics AUTO_INCREMENT=$correct;") or die(mysql_error());



$row=mysql_fetch_row(mysql_query("SELECT MAX(post_id) FROM bb_posts;"));

if($row[0]!="") {

$correct=$row[0];

}

else {

$correct=1;

};

mysql_query("ALTER TABLE bb_posts AUTO_INCREMENT=$correct;") or die(mysql_error());



$row=mysql_fetch_row(mysql_query("SELECT MAX(meta_id) FROM bb_meta;"));

if($row[0]!="") {

$correct=$row[0];

}

else {

$correct=1;

};

mysql_query("ALTER TABLE bb_meta AUTO_INCREMENT=$correct;") or die(mysql_error());



mysql_close($link);

[@_ck_ Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

You could easily turn this into a more standardized script by starting the code with require('./bb-load.php'); to load the bbPress code and check user authorization, and then if (!bb_current_user_can(administrate)) {exit;}

The mysql_query( would become $bbdb->query( and you’d have to do a global $bbdb; once at the top too. Just for completeness you might want to look at some of the functions in bb-do-counts.php in bb-admin.

Actually it would be fairly easy to turn it into a full blown plugin for the admin menu.

[@vertus Member 15 years, 11 months ago]

I’m not a php-programmer… Where I can add the code from topic starter to make it work?

[@pierig Member 15 years, 11 months ago]

The procedure written by wiseacre:

-1 The script starts with <?php and finishes with ?>

0 Change lines 1 and 2 with you user, host, password and database name

1 Save to file filename.php

2 Upload to your forum directory

3 Start it. For example – open http://example.com/bbpress/filename.php

Thanks for this script, unfortunetly I receive “Table ‘bbpress.bb1_meta’ doesn’t exist”

I adjust your script, because I’ve renamed all tables to bb1_ instead of bb_

Any idea?

Thanks

[@_ck_ Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

Also be EXTREMELY careful when tampering with the auto-increment.

If you re-use any topic id # you are guaranteed to break some plugins.

[@pierig Member 15 years, 11 months ago]

Bump it.. I would really appreciate if somebody can show me how to delete permanently deleted posts..

Or how are you doing the tests. I have a test user, login with it and make test posts..

Thx

pierig

[@wiseacre Member 15 years, 11 months ago]

Sorry about delay, guys.

@pierig – What about your bbpress version?

NOTE: Please have in mind this script is tested with not respect any plugins.

[@pierig Member 15 years, 10 months ago]

Never mind!

I use version 0.9.0.4

Thanks for the note, everybody should do anyway a backup before testing a script out of the web.

Happy monday

ps. sorry for my bad english, it’s monday morning..

[@wiseacre Member 15 years, 10 months ago]

I have tested with Alfa 2+. There was some changes in DB structure. bb_meta is one of them. It’s time for ( )

NOTE 2: this script is compatible with trunk

If your database size is not a big problem you can wait for next bbpress version.

[@pierig Member 15 years, 10 months ago]

I see. Ok then, I’ll wait for the next version.

Thanks anyway.

greetz from paris