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Taco John
03-10-2005, 03:40 AM
I don't think this has been done before, but I've got this idea, and I'd like to see if it's workable...

I'd like to find a way to preserve archives by transferring sections of it to a stand-alone CD that could be popped into a drive and surfed and searched through as though the user was on the site. I could then offer the archives to community members for their own files as sort of site memorabilia.

Is there a way to do this? It would be great to preserve these posts before they get pruned, and given back to the community for posterity...
Marco van Herwaarden
03-10-2005, 03:52 AM
That would need a lot of coding i think. Since the archive is also pulled from the DB, you will need to create some kind of static (non-database) version of all pages. It would also be impossible to check for permissions then.
Taco John
03-11-2005, 12:17 AM
That would need a lot of coding i think. Since the archive is also pulled from the DB, you will need to create some kind of static (non-database) version of all pages. It would also be impossible to check for permissions then.



So it's pretty much impossible? :(
Zachery
03-11-2005, 12:41 AM
Old Idea.....

Anyway, always possible, I believe there are some programs that would let you do it, But it would be quite abit of time and effort.
SpadMan
03-28-2005, 09:05 PM
If vbulletin Archives was modified to include links to attachments, WebWhacker or a similar program could create the files for burning to CD.