Download Thread
 

This hacks allows you to download a thread into your computer (desktop etc.) as a text file with one click.

The hack adds a "DOWNLOAD THREAD" link next to "Subscribe to this Thread" and when clicked entire thread is downloaded. (See Screenshot)

It's useful when:
a) You want to archive and save the thread,
b) Want to read it offline,
c) It's a long thread and you want to browse it faster as a text file, use better searching features of your text editor. For example wouldnt it be nice to download and search a keyword in the text file in, say, Lesene's Store Hack Thread which has 921 replies? :p

Anyway the hack works with ALL vb versions and very easy to apply (2 steps/ 2 minutes..). If you install it, please click INSTALL, thank you.

Note : Download function is tested with IE v.6.0 and Netscape v.4.7 and it's working in both browsers. I dont know other browsers or older versions though

Note : For Italian Translation (and instructions) of the hack, see this post. Thanks to Geminy.


UPDATE AT 13.OCTOBER.2002 : Due to a small bug, I updated the hack code. If you are downloading now, the code you dowload is already updated. If you installed the hack prior to 13.October.2002, you may want to reapply STEP 2, if you encounter problems.

Enjoy the hack. :)
Logician

Screenshot

Looks good. I will probably install this :D

Installed and working great. Thanks :)

Works great. Very nice hack. That would be cool if this hack needed no support hehehe. It works for everyone hehe. Great hack. I love the layout of the TXT file also. Great work indeed.

think i will install it, good work pal!!

just a question: does it have any problems on large threads like servertimeouts or something?
do you know anything like that, or that a posters username disappears (as happens sometimes in my archiv hack, and i don't know why ;))

excellent work logician. :)
congrats on this great idea. i will use it on my tutorials forum.

I didnt test with very long threads so I dont know what would happen if it is applied to Store Hack thread for instance..
But I really dont think it would be a problem, because even a long thread should not take more than 30 seconds to compile. Depends on your MYSQL performance too of course.

yeah I know! Same happened to me in this hack. I didnt bother to trace its reason but I applied a LEFT JOIN in my query to get the username from user table, instead of using the username in thread table. Strange but thread table usernames sometimes disappear as you mentioned.. Anyway take a look at my query and you can adopt the same method in your hack too. It obviously works..

Thx but I cant say its my idea. I'm highly inspired by Bira's "Download PMs to a file" hack (great hack BTW)..

In fact I requested this hack in that thread months ago, but nobody coded it, so I did.. ;)

Another excellent hack, sir. Installed without a hitch and works great! There is one thing, though. Is there a way to parse out the font color codes and other codes like that before it writes the message to a text file? :)