firehose: provide system prefs to allow folks to fine tune to their needs

2 files changed, 16 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/include/expire.php b/include/expire.php
index ee9956ef3..efce64ee4 100644
--- a/include/expire.php
+++ b/include/expire.php
@@ -29,10 +29,19 @@ function expire_run($argv, $argc){
 		}
 	}
 
+
 	$x = get_sys_channel();
-	if($x)
-		item_expire($x['channel_id'],30);
+	if($x) {
+
+		// this should probably just fetch the channel_expire_days from the sys channel,
+		// but there's no convenient way to set it.
 
+		$expire_days = get_config('externals','expire_days');
+		if($expire_days === false)
+			$expire_days = 30;
+		if($expire_days)
+			item_expire($x['channel_id'],$expire_days);
+	}
 	return;
 }
 
diff --git a/include/externals.php b/include/externals.php
index 48aeaf6b3..946931033 100644
--- a/include/externals.php
+++ b/include/externals.php
@@ -28,7 +28,11 @@ function externals_run($argv, $argc){
 	}
 
 	if($url) {
-		$feedurl = $url . '/zotfeed?f=&mindate=' . urlencode(datetime_convert('','','now - 15 days'));
+		$days = intval(getconfig('externals','since_days'));
+		if($days === false)
+			$days = 15;
+
+		$feedurl = $url . '/zotfeed?f=&mindate=' . urlencode(datetime_convert('','','now - ' . $days . ' days'));
 		$x = z_fetch_url($feedurl);
 
 		if(($x) && ($x['success'])) {