Automatic Forum Generation

[bdunbar]

New vbulletin admin here. If this post belongs elsewhere, let me know, please. All other advice cheerfully accepted.

It's possible (it's hoped for at least) that the demand for forum creation on my board will exceed our ability to manually enter the information by hand; for example I know that I'll need to at least;

- Add X number of forums on command, via script.

- Add Users that can utilize these forums, again via script.

The process should be like so: Abe signs up for our service. He clicks 'submit', and seconds later he has a private forum for his group, Bob and Charlene. If Abe has to wait for an overworked (and at this point underpaid) admin to manually create the forum, he's not going to be a happy client ....

On the backend what I envision is the login request dumping to an xml or text file, and the script taking _that_ and creating the forums, then emailing success or failure. Of course being a proactive admin I'd have all the activity logged.

I can't be the first guy to need something like this - but I've searched the both the .com and .org forums. I'm sure it's not (hah) difficult (in theory) . . .

brian dunbar
brian.dunbar@plexus.com