SMF Mod for Scheduled Posting

[humbleworld]

I would love to see a MOD that allows us to schedule a post on SMF-powered forum. I know this feature is available in Wordpress and Blogger. Could we have the same in SMF?

[JBlaze]

Things that we would need to know:

1) 1.1.10 or 2.0? If it is for 1.1.10, then it would take alot more work to make it...
2) What options should the post have?
3) What should the post contain and how often should it be posted?

[humbleworld]

1. Version 2.0 since we are moving to that path anyway.
2. Options: we can choose the month, day, year, hour and minute when a thread would be posted.
3. The post is purely text (like an ordinary thread start) and should be posted just once when the time of posting indicated comes.

I think this would be very useful to forum admins who plan to go offline for a long time. This way forums would still have fresh threads even if the admin goes offline. Of course, the are many benefits that this MOD can bring to the community that others here might point out later.

[Arantor]

Future posting does sound like fun. Even been on my to-do list a while.

[humbleworld]

I think VBulletin doesn't have this kind of feature. Correct me if I'm wrong on this.

[Arantor]

I have to be honest, I don't build features because platform <X> does or doesn't. I build them because they'll be useful and cool.

This is on my todo list and where I'm on hiatus from team duties I'll be picking up my mod queue once all my current mods work correctly on 2.0 RC2.

[humbleworld]

Thanks Arantor. Many will love this MOD. That I am sure.

[Liam.]

Thanks Arantor. Many will love this MOD. That I am sure.

Yes, I sure will. On my site when I tell staff to post atleast an article a week, as close to a specific time as possible; this will be great.

[Skoen]

I would definitely love to see this mod available as well, although I'm using 1.10.

[Arantor]

As/when I get round to it I won't be doing a 1.1 version, sorry.

[humbleworld]

Yes, it should be released for the latest version of SMF.

[CultureGlue]

I can't wait for this mod

[KensonPlays]

Me neither! Even tho I am on my site often...

[vbgamer45]

Wouldn't be hard to do If no one works on by end of Jan I might make one kind of cool. SMF 2.0 has scheduled tasks so it should be a piece of cake.

[CultureGlue]

I heard it would be much far easier in 2.0

[KensonPlays]

That is what he said he would do it in!

[MARRR]

I WAS KIND OF HOPING TO HAVE IT AVAILABLE FOR VERSION 1.1.11

[JBlaze]

I WAS KIND OF HOPING TO HAVE IT AVAILABLE FOR VERSION 1.1.11

Good luck with that. Cron jobs ftl

[Arantor]

I WAS KIND OF HOPING TO HAVE IT AVAILABLE FOR VERSION 1.1.11

Sorry, I couldn't hear you...

[PopUpSteve]

Anything every become of this? It still would be a great MOD.