Add option to disable link checking on cron [#2704193]

I currently see no way to disable link checking while you have the module enabled except for unchecking node types, comments, and blocks on the admin page. Seeing as how there are other integrations in the issue queue, it would require many variable sets for an admin to turn off link checking for whatever reason, bogging down site etc., and then turn it back on later with the same settings.

I propose to add a check to linkchecker_cron() to return if a "don't check links on cron" variable is set.

Comment	File	Size	Author
#3	linkchecker-disable-on-cron-2704193-7-3.patch	1.64 KB	afinnarn
#3	7.x-1.x: PHP 5.3 & MySQL 5.5, D7 7 pass PHP 5.4 & MySQL 5.5, D7 7 pass PHP 5.5 & MySQL 5.5, D7 7 pass PHP 5.6 & MySQL 5.5, D7 7 pass

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Comment #1

11 April 2016 at 18:06

afinnarn created an issue. See original summary.

Comment #2

afinnarn CreditAttribution: afinnarn as a volunteer commented 11 April 2016 at 18:32

Version:

7.x-1.2

» 7.x-1.x-dev

Comment #3

afinnarn CreditAttribution: afinnarn as a volunteer and at University of Colorado Boulder commented 11 April 2016 at 20:03

File	Size
linkchecker-disable-on-cron-2704193-7-3.patch	1.64 KB
7.x-1.x: PHP 5.3 & MySQL 5.5, D7 7 pass PHP 5.4 & MySQL 5.5, D7 7 pass PHP 5.5 & MySQL 5.5, D7 7 pass PHP 5.6 & MySQL 5.5, D7 7 pass

patch

Comment #4

hass CreditAttribution: hass commented 12 April 2016 at 14:06

Status:

Active

» Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

You could disable the module temporarily or use a module that allows you to disable the cron task of linkchecker. It would also allow you to control better when linkchecker runs. e.g. if you like it to run every 2 hours or every 3 hours. I guess this would fit here, too and we can keep these edge case extra code out.

Does this work for you, too?

Comment #5

afinnarn CreditAttribution: afinnarn as a volunteer and at University of Colorado Boulder commented 15 April 2016 at 15:23

The extra module to disable linkchecker makes more sense than disabling linkchecker temporarily. In my case, the dependency tree would make me disable other modules that I need the functionality always on, and I want to keep those modules bundled with linkchecker.

I do think an option to suspend link checking while the module is still on makes sense from a usability perspective rather than having to disable the module or alter cron to stop link checking. A site builder wouldn't know how to create a custom module, and an admin without privileges to administer modules but permissions to administer the linkchecker settings couldn't disable the module.

Thoughts?

Comment #6

afinnarn CreditAttribution: afinnarn as a volunteer and at University of Colorado Boulder commented 15 April 2016 at 15:23

Status:

Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

» Needs review

Comment #7

hass CreditAttribution: hass commented 15 April 2016 at 18:09

Linkchecker has no dependencies. It can be disabled without any side effects. As noted there are modules that allow you to disable cron for individual modules. Please try these.

Comment #8

NancyDru

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CreditAttribution: NancyDru commented 1 February 2018 at 14:58

Yes, this is a valuable feature. Most of us have dev and test versions of the site. We can put configuration variables in that environment's settings.php. We do this with the Reroute_Email module: it is off in production and on in the dev and test environments. So, when we refresh the database, the environment's settings.php forces it to be on, and the production settings forces it to be off.

Comment #9

james.williams CreditAttribution: james.williams at ComputerMinds commented 21 October 2022 at 13:43

I believe this feature also helps this module has great value for auditing the existence of links without having to check whether the links are broken or not. My client's content editors want to know where certain links are in their content so that they can go and update them all, without needing to care about checking about whether links are broken or not. In fact, this particular site is behind a firewall so wouldn't be able to even make successful checks anyway.