Publishing Database info to file?

[DrkFusion]

How would I be able to publish database info to a file, or even better, mimic the forum style and all, but write all threads as archive, and not update them, and make them serve as a old thread archive? Then reset the forum.

This is the type of archive I am looking for, and think would benifit me.

Thanks

[Xenon]

there is a PDF-lib installed on some hosts.
if you have it installed, you can write little scripts to convert your threads into a pdf-file and afterwards download it

[DrkFusion]

Is there a way to jsut copy the html like that archive site, that has the old vB.org archived, but people can't post new posts, just view them.

[DrkFusion]

I would like to set up an archive of this, so users can check out old threads and such, and I would prefer automatic

[Xenon]

hmm, try my archiv hack
i've used it on another site i closed laterly, and have all threads archived before.

with a few coding things you could make it stand alone (at least version 1 wasn't a problem )

[DrkFusion]

What does your archiv do? Does it copy all threads, and then if you delete it, you can reset your board, but people can view them, but not post?

*please please please please*

[Xenon]

it copies threads (you can decide which threads ), and save em in the DB compressed.

yes you can reimport them in another DB
no, users cannot post into archives

read the first post of the hack :P

[DrkFusion]

Okie dokie, thanks Xenon, a general board I admin will be switching back to vB soon, and they got 100 some posts from the original vB so I will be doing some work there.