Generate table of contents page for forums... $$ offered

[Rich_Z]

Thanks for the advice, but I guess I wasn't clear on what I want.

I want to have a separate HTML document that will be a table of contents between the main page of my site and the front page of the forums. The number of forums I will have in vBulletin is going to be quite overwhelming for new viewers, so I don't want to overwhelm them right off the bat.

The main page of my site is www.FaunaClassifieds.com. I would put the link on this page to the forums to something like www.FaunaClassifieds.com/forumTOC.html, which would be the table of contents to the forums themselves. I really don't want the main page of the forums themselves to do this job, because (1) bandwidth will suffer moreso than the plain vanilla HTML document would cause, and (2) the manner in which vBulletin displays multilevel forums (without modifications) is not what I have in mind to make it easier and clearer to my visitors to get where they may want to go.

Since vBulletin already creates something similar in a couple of places in the admin section, I felt it would be best to utilize this code and modify it for my use. For instance, under the Forums & Moderators heading, if you select 'Modify', you will get an entire list of ALL forums in the system, in a format that is quite easy to read and follow. But I would want all the extraneous stuff (order, edit, remove, etc.) taken out, and the actual forums and links exported to an HTML formatted text file. Since I may be making changes in the future, this is a function that I may need to use several times, so doing this all manually would be a royal pain.

I have already plugged in a link into my admin menu and found the code (displayforums) that does this function, but I am short on time to spend on this. I am perfectly willing to pay someone to help me out with this so I can get this done while I actually work on restructuring my message board.

Oh yeah, if someone wanted to get fancy and have this table of contents be a real time display to show the reader which forums have new messages since their last visit, that would be GREAT! But I would settle for plain vanilla now and add the cherries and sprinkles at a later date.

Thanks.