Delete image nodes at cron run
madjoe - December 9, 2008 - 01:37
I'd like to select image nodes by MySQL SELECT statement and then to be able to delete all of the selected node id's at cron run. When nodes are deleted, I would also like to delete all of their image files with every single instance as well (such as thumbnails, etc.).
Is there any example how would I achieve this?
It depends on what version of Drupal you are running.
For the 5.x releases you could look at the following:
https://drupal.org/project/auto_expire or http://drupal.org/project/node_expire
I know D6 has an easier way to do it. There has been some discussion about here in the past.
Drupal 5
I need it for D5... I'll take a look at those 2 similar modules, but it seems that they use unpublishing of nodes only. They don't delete anything. I like the feature of notifying users upon deleting.
Maybe I don't need the whole module, I thought I could add a piece of code in a custom "cron.php" to achieve this?
custom module
For something this specific most likely you'll need to create a small custom module consisting of only a hook_cron(). The function would select the nodes for deletion using whatever criteria required then loop through the recordset deleting the file(s) and record accordingly. You could then send an e-mail to admin or create a log entry (preferred) reporting how many nodes were deleted. Piece of cake.
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