Publishing Database info to file?

[DrkFusion]

How would I be able to publish database info to a file, or even better, mimic the forum style and all, but write all threads as archive, and not update them, and make them serve as a old thread archive? Then reset the forum.

This is the type of archive I am looking for, and think would benifit me.

Thanks

[Xenon]

there is a PDF-lib installed on some hosts.
if you have it installed, you can write little scripts to convert your threads into a pdf-file and afterwards download it :)

[DrkFusion]

Is there a way to jsut copy the html like that archive site, that has the old vB.org archived, but people can't post new posts, just view them.

[DrkFusion]

I would like to set up an archive of this, so users can check out old threads and such, and I would prefer automatic :)

[Xenon]

hmm, try my archiv hack ;)
i've used it on another site i closed laterly, and have all threads archived before.

with a few coding things you could make it stand alone (at least version 1 wasn't a problem ;))

[DrkFusion]

What does your archiv do? Does it copy all threads, and then if you delete it, you can reset your board, but people can view them, but not post?

*please please please please*
:p

[Xenon]

it copies threads (you can decide which threads ;)), and save em in the DB compressed.

yes you can reimport them in another DB
no, users cannot post into archives

read the first post of the hack :P

[DrkFusion]

Okie dokie, thanks Xenon, a general board I admin will be switching back to vB soon, and they got 100 some posts from the original vB so I will be doing some work there.