Autoarchive Mambot for Joomla 1.0.x available for download

TeachMeJoomla launches the autoarchive mambot!

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Update: the mambot was recently updated to allow expiration date reset. Use this parameter if you are archiving expired items and want to make the archive available to the public. This fixes the "You are not authorized..." problem when using SectionArchive or CategoryArchive menu items. 

If you are having problems with this error:

1. unarchive your items from Joomla! administration-content-archive manager
2. install the latest bot version

It will reset expiration date and fix those problems. you may also want to temporarily set "How many items to process" to a very large value (like 100) . This will ensure that your items are archived quickly.

If you see too many "Automation by TeachMeJoomla" links on your site, your cache directory may not be writable. You need to chmod it to 777 or 755 using Joomla Xplorer or a FTP client. To check cache folder writeability, go to your Joomla! administration and click System-System information. If this operation is too technical for you, ask your hosting support for instructions. Tell them you need to make a folder writeable by PHP scripts.

Also make sure the polling interval parameter is set to a non-zero value (60, for example). This enhances site performance and unclutters your blog-view pages.

The latest plugin(mambot) version is 1.0.1 

More information:

TeachMeJoomla's AutoArchive mambot

performs automatic actions when content items reach expiration time

The mambot is compatible with Joomla! versions 1.0x and 1.1 

This is a content mambot. It runs when your Joomla site displays content items in frontend. Mambot tags are not needed for this mambot. It runs automagically.

Behaviour:

The mambot is called when a visitor (or a Web crawler) accesses a content item. At that point, the mambot scans the Joomla database content table to check if some items expired. If so, an automatic action is performed.

The mambot design takes site performance into account. This is why you can set both how many items may be processed at a time, and how much time should pass between two consecutive executions.

You may set a section and category filter if you want automatic processing to be restricted on specific containers.

Catching up with many expired items

For example, you have a 10,000 articles site, and 8000 of those expired. You need to move the articles to archive and notify article authors that an action is being taken.

We also assume you have one visitor per hour on your site. So what you need is a simple calculation in order to adjust those parameters right.

24hours * 1 visit * 1 item = 24 items processed per day.

8000 articles / 24 articles per day = 333 days. So, it will take aproximately 333 days (almost 1 year!) to auto-archive your items.

The problem here is the small number of visits. If you want the job done in one month, just set "How many items to process" to 10. This will make the mambot finish in 1 month, but sending 10 notification emails each time a visitor hits a content item may slow the site down.

You should tune the mambot again after the articles are processed.

Calculating normal operation parameters

High traffic scenario

Let's assume for this example that 10 articles on your Joomla! site expire every day. You want those processed automatically.

Your site has 1000 pageviews per day. How do you set the autoarchive mambot for best performance(minimal impact for site speed).

Well, set the "How many items" to 1, since your pageviews are greater than the number of content items that need processing.

Now, how large should be the polling cycle interval? We don't what the mambot scanning the site uselessly if all our ten articles have already been processed.

Well, 1000 pageviews means 1000 mambot executions per day. We only need ten executions, since our site has an average of ten expiring articles a day.

24 hours * 60 minutes * 60 seconds = 86400 seconds in a day. We need 86400seconds / 10articles = one execution every 8640 seconds. So, you set how many to 1, and polling cycle to 8640. This ensures the mambot will process ten articles a day with great performance. An alternative is setting How many to 2, and doubling the polling cycle.

Low traffic scenario

Another example. Your large site has 100 expiring articles daily. Unfortunately, it gets only 10 pageviews per day.

You want those articles processed automatically. In this case, you should process more items per pageview, because pageviews are fewer than expiring articles. So, set "How many" to 10, that will make 10 * 10 = 100 articles.

If you notice that some articles are, not processed as fast as you wish you should increase the "How many" parameter and/or decrease the polling cycle.

You can help me, too

The mambot outputs a span "Automation by TeachmeJoomla" , using the "small" CSS class. this text is only outputed when effective actions have been taken on items. It does not display every time you access content items.

This text is displayed on-the fly, it does alter your content items in any way.

This text helps me track mambot popularity, and increase my homepage visibility on the Internet.

Thank You !

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