Rutger, hello, actually, the rss.plugins.updates.before (and rss.plugins.updates.after) plugin hooks are only called when the Update class (cls/update.php) is instantiated, and right after the update process is finished, respectively. So I'd say you could safely have your plugin do the pruning at that moment. Re: item_admin() copying, I don't think that is a good idea. What I would do is: a) check that the user is authorized to prune items (with rss_user_check_user_level(RSS_USER_LEVEL_PRIVATE)) b) pollute the request superglobals, e.g.: $_REQUEST['prune_period'] = 'days'; $_REQUEST[CST_ADMIN_CONFIRMED] = true; .... c) include admin/items.php and call item_admin(); (Yes, this is quite a nasty hack. :) Alternatively you could isolate the pruning code from item_admin() and have a new function in admin/items.php, e.g. items_prune($period, $includeSticky, $excludedTags, ...) ...which you could call directly from your plugin, without having to pollute the superglobals. I'd be very pleased to commit the resulting admin/items.php to the development code, so that other users could use your plugin too. How does that sound? Best, -m Rutger Wessels wrote: > Hello, > > I use Gregaris for a few months now and I like it very much. It solves > my RSS reading problems with multiple locations and systems. The only > problem is that my Gregarius installation is hosted on a virtual server > with limited memory (96Mb) and that causes problems when the number of > items is growing. So pruning items is the solution. > > I started with a plugin for this that lets the user define an interval X > and a period (days, weeks, months, years). So items that are older than > X period will be deleted. I won't delete sticky and unread items (maybe > configurable). > > My plan is to run this plugin based on the hook > rss.plugins.updates.before. But that will delete items every time the > frontpage is (re)loaded. Is that correct? Maybe too much load? > > Is that hook also triggered when the update.php script is run? > > My guess is that I can copy the procedure in item_admin(). Is that right? > > regards, > Rutger Wessels > _______________________________________________ > gregarius-dev mailing list > gregarius-dev at sinless.org > http://sinless.org/mailman/listinfo/gregarius-dev >