Article sharing among different boards of like feather
 

There are hundreds of scenes that vBulletin plays a central role in organizing members and allowing for open discussion. Usually, a member will join a certain board over another to acquire the knowledge contained within the electronic walls of that particular one. What we aim to do is consolidate information exchange and allow for boards with similiar interests to share posted articles.

Here is how I envision this project:

• All participating boards will make a dedicated article forum
• As members post original research that warrants "electronic publishing" the MOD team will move the thread into the article forum
• A central site uses a script to query each participating board's article forum for new posts.
• If the script finds an article that has not been included it will then grab the first post (usually the article)

What this will allow is a greater degree of interaction, member posting, inter-board relations, and eventually innovation. This system mimics the submission procedure for academic research in that an author presents an article, a review board determines if it is standard or subpar, and publishes it per criteria. Since it is electronic the turnaround time for international (internet) publication and peer review will be measured in hours...not months.

In my scene we are focused on free exchange of ideas and information but are contrained by specialization. Currently, vBulletin sets the standard in organizing small groups (maybe a few thousand) of like minded individuals. If we could somehow centralize the best articles through this type of system the level of functionality of vBulletin will be taken to the next level.

Data to be captured by central board:

• Original Author (membername)
• Post date
• Submitting Board (simple URL)
• URL to remote thread / article so viewers could follow and debate there.
• Contents of article

Ideally this script would be run by cron job but manual execution is still kick ass.

Ladies and gentlemen of the hacking scene,

I call upon you for your sevices in helping change the face of information exchange. This requested hack is rather large but the functionality that will be derived will revolutionize the way we submit, disseminate, and debate innovative ideas.

I thank you in advance for your expert help!

Humbly submitted,

Chemo

Pretty please? :)

Chemo

If it's saying what I think it is (I usually don't read beyond the first three characters of any given post ;)) it's a huge security hole because you'd have to allow database access to many different people.

the only thing i can think of is

check out the display post on non-vB page in my sig request if it's not that it's the one named something similar by me in the php forum, anyway try that and ask it to include the relevant forums global.php dunno if it will work but should in theory

but filburt is mostprobtelling the truth, it's likely to lead to security problems

How about something like a standalone PHP script that is placed inside the forum folder of the submitting board that when called will return just the threads from a forum that they set?

The results of the query would then have to be checked for redundancy and if already present would not store the entry in the receiving database.

In other words, a script based on a form submission with the queried data as values would be excellent here. The submitting forum could call the script which would have 2 choices, "Submit Articles" and "Cancel". If they hit submit it would execute the query and post the results to a script PHP on my server which would check to see if the article has already been received and if not add the entry.

The important thing is to be able to query one particular forum on their board and pump the threads into one on mine.

Chemo

Who's the wiz with these type of projects?

Chemo