Archive Hack - Old posts only

[jackson007+1]

Hi MarcoH64,

Thanks for taking an interest in this.

Yes, I understand that the archive is not really an archive, just a spyder-friendly html version of the forum's threads and posts.

What I want to do is create exactly that, but only including threads and posts up to a certain date, not all the threads and posts in the forum.

Once this spyder-friendly html version of my forum's threads and posts is created, I would use a spyder program to capture it, which I would then upload to a different domain. The idea is that the search engines would spyder the other domain, thus causing it to popup in the relevant search results. When a visitor visits the other domain, there would be a prominent link directing them to my active site.

I imangine that the cutoff date would be hard coded into the php files, so once my active forum had generated an archive with the old threads and posts, and after I had copied it, I would then comment out the added code so that my active forum would then re-generate a normal archive.

I would only need to do this once every few months, so I don't think there's a need for a user interface.

Thanks,

Jackson