It is possible to use xoopscare too; It allows to execute php code and set the time for that

cool. I was thinking the same last night. So I pasted in the code just as it is here and saved settings then clicked the do it now link but nothing changed on the PM data size so I know I did something wrong. Do I have to put in my database name, user name etc where it has that listed or just copy and paste as is? Thanks!

just hit edit to add what I saw below lol

For the following, I assume we add our own information?
define("user", "dbuser");
define("pass", "dbpass");
define("host", "localhost");
define("db", "dbname");

FYI I tried adding in the information above, saved settings and then ran it. Did not change. So I wonder where / how I set the time setting i.e. 30 days etc?

I put in 30 in the $delete_time = time() area i.e. time(30) but that did not do it either.

Ideas?

My hosting company does not have CRON jobs for shared servers. only thing I could find is flush the table for PM.

I am assuming that deletes them all which is not what I want. I just want to clean out all the unread ones. I have a few I want to save myself.

Should the "?" be there in front of php? ie <?php

this is how it should look if you use XOOPS care and it does work :) You do have to edit the user, pass, host and DB but that information is found in your mainfile.php file

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