How do I distribute my Forum on CD-ROM for viewing

hi,

my forum is getting very large now, and the members asking for an offline-version for searching and reading. Is there a way (a "hack" or tool) to do this? does an offline-player exists?

thanks,

sascha.

[marc_t]

This is a very interesting point.
Ruth, do you know if I have the possibility to set filters vor the download. I just have the option to choose the whole site or the site I typed the URL of.
If I choose to take the whole site, Acrobat takes all the links, including all members in the list etc...

Would be great to get more info about this

marc

[Ruth]

you have the following options:

URL to download:

Levels: 1-2-3-...

O Get entire site

O Only get pages under the same path

O Stay on the same server.

cheers,

[marc_t]

Jap, that was what I already had.

The Problem is, if you get a vBulletin Board into pdf, it takes every link that is reachable from the levels you want to have.

E.g. if you want to have two levels of a Forum you also get the calendar, the user cp, the faq etc...
Furthermore you get all kinds of Forumsorting, as "by Date (increasing/decreasing)", "by user"....

You get what I want to explain?!

[gmtalk]

just food for thought could you not use something similar to the hack for vbspider. it is in html format.

just an idea

[marc_t]

I had a try with webzip. So far this is not bad, as I can set filters for paths I don´t wanna have, but the search engine doesn´t work anymore afterwards.
Do you think there is a solution with working search function?

marc

[rylin]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by marc_t
I had a try with webzip. So far this is not bad, as I can set filters for paths I don?t wanna have, but the search engine doesn?t work anymore afterwards.
Do you think there is a solution with working search function?

marc

[marc_t]

so the only solution would be to produce an offline searchfunction which searches the sourcetext.. hmm

oki thanks for your help to all!

marc

[rylin]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by marc_t
so the only solution would be to produce an offline searchfunction which searches the sourcetext.. hmm

oki thanks for your help to all!

marc

[Admin]

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[pelicanparts]

I'm a master at creating programs that 'scrape' other people's sits (no comment), so I thought why not create a script that will 'scrape' the Vb, and convert it into static HTML?

If I do this each Sunday night (let's say), and then submit the first link to the big search engines, then it should generate some significant traffic eh?

If you want to search static HTML on the web, there are plenty of search engines out there that can then re-index your whole static HTML and provide you with search results.

As for the folks out there who don't like Static HTML - BooHA! Static HTML is the fastest thing out there - it takes miliseconds to dish out a static page, and a lot more overhead to pull a page out of MySQL (including a call to PHP). I wish that there was a Vb option to create Static HTML like they did with UBB 5 (the only thing you'd lose is "current time").

Anyways, I know nothing about PHP, but I am an expert at Perl, (or so I think), so I'll just write this little routine in Perl, and post it here in the next few days.

-Wayne