Adsmanager Redundant Ads Deletion Component Copyright Ben Tasker Released under GNU GPL V3 http://projects.bentasker.co.uk/projsummary.php?Project=32 ------------------------------------------------------- Contents --------- - Introduction - Usage - Default Password Change - Copyright Introduction -------------- This component is intended as an accompaniement to 'The Factorys' Adsmanager component (www.thefactory.ro). When a user account is deleted, all associated ads remain on the system. For some users this is desirable, for others it is not! This component allows a simple cron job to delete all orphaned ads and their associated images. It is STRONGLY recommended that you change the default password Usage ------ Simply use Joomlas component installer to install the new component. You then need to add a cronjob to call the page and provide the password (default is 'd3l373'). A suitable cron call would be wget -O - -q "http://localhost/index.php?index.php?option=com_adsman_redundantads&view= adsman_redundantads&pass=d3l373" Default Password Change ------------------------ It is STRONGLY recommended that you change the default password. Although it is primarily intended to prevent accidental triggering by search engines and bots crawling your site, dependant on the size of your database it can be very resource intensive and in extreme situations could allow an attacker to DoS your server. To change the default password, install the plugin and then edit line 38 of components/com_adsman_redundantads/views/adsman_redundantads/view.html.php Replace d3l373 with your new password and update your cron job to use the correct authentication token. Later releases will include the ability to set this password in Joomlas backend. Copyright ---------- The component is Copyright (C) 2011 Ben Tasker and is released under the GNU GPL V3. A copy of the license is available at http://projects.bentasker.co.uk/License.php?ref=2 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------