Download Thread

This hacks allows you to download a thread into your computer (desktop etc.) as a text file with one click.

The hack adds a "DOWNLOAD THREAD" link next to "Subscribe to this Thread" and when clicked entire thread is downloaded. (See Screenshot)

It's useful when:
a) You want to archive and save the thread,
b) Want to read it offline,
c) It's a long thread and you want to browse it faster as a text file, use better searching features of your text editor. For example wouldnt it be nice to download and search a keyword in the text file in, say, Lesene's Store Hack Thread which has 921 replies?

Anyway the hack works with ALL vb versions and very easy to apply (2 steps/ 2 minutes..). If you install it, please click INSTALL, thank you.

Note : Download function is tested with IE v.6.0 and Netscape v.4.7 and it's working in both browsers. I dont know other browsers or older versions though

Note : For Italian Translation (and instructions) of the hack, see this post. Thanks to Geminy.


UPDATE AT 13.OCTOBER.2002 : Due to a small bug, I updated the hack code. If you are downloading now, the code you dowload is already updated. If you installed the hack prior to 13.October.2002, you may want to reapply STEP 2, if you encounter problems.

Enjoy the hack.
Logician

[SRozhon]

Oh geesh thank you...guess I'm more tired than I thought..lol Thanks again!

[Dynamic One]

Thanks Logician. Great hack you made m8.

[geniuscrew]

Works like a charm! *installs*

[Boofo]

I just installed this on 2.2.9 and I have a thread title with quotes in it. When I go to download the thread it shows it as the following:

Do you believe in & quot

(NOTE: I had to put a space bewteen the & and the quot. The disable code hack doesn't work here now for some reason.)

when the actual name of the thread is:

Do you believe in "signs"?

How can I parse out the quotes in the title?

[MalaK_3araby]

Thanks for this hack.

- Installs

[N9ne]

I noticed the same bug as Boofo did, when there is a html character in the thread title, it will screw up the file name, something somewhere needs to be unhtmlcharacter'd

[Boofo]

N9ne, I found a fix for our problem. I tried it and it works on my end. Test it out and let me know if it fixes it for you. You have to change it in 3 places so the file will have the html characters in the thread title and any post title you have those characters in also.

Replace:

PHP Code:

$filename=preg_replace("/[.!:\\\?\^\'\"\$]/", '', $thread[title]); 


With:

PHP Code:

$filename=preg_replace("/[.!:\\\?\^\'\"\$]/", '', unhtmlspecialchars($thread[title])); 


Replace:

PHP Code:

  print ("THREAD : $thread_db[title]\r\n"); 


With:

PHP Code:

  print ("THREAD : ".unhtmlspecialchars($thread_db[title])."\r\n"); 


Replace:

PHP Code:

  if ($post[title]) {print ("Title : ".$post[title]."\r\n");} 


With:

PHP Code:

  if ($post[title]) {print ("Title : ".unhtmlspecialchars($post[title])."\r\n");} 


[Logician]

Originally posted by Boofo
N9ne, I found a fix for our problem.

Looks good and should work.. Well done..

[Boofo]

Originally posted by Logician

Looks good and should work.. Well done..

Coming from you, Sinan, that means more than you will ever know. I mean that.

And thank you for not running to bail me out when I first ran into this problem and posted it in the thread here. I never would have figured it out myself, if you had given me the code. You forced me to learn something (as little as it was).

[Logician]

Originally posted by Boofo

And thank you for not running to bail me out when I first ran into this problem and posted it in the thread here. I never would have figured it out myself, if you had given me the code. You forced me to learn something (as little as it was).

It was not my intention.. I just cant always find time to answer promptly but I'm glad it did some good..