How to download forum posts to html?

VirtualAdept · 23 Oct 2008 at 05:04

I've got a phpbb forum and I'd like to save/download the posts to html format.
I've tried offline explorer (I think) but it didn't do what I wanted, and was wondering if you guys have any recommendations for software that can do it easily(ish)

Many thanks
Madison

sidethink · 23 Oct 2008 at 08:23

I really have no idea exactly how to do it but I would presume it could be done with some sort of (My)SQL query.

malef!c · 23 Oct 2008 at 08:50

Just an idea off the top of me head - is there any sort of RSS feed?
Write a script that grabs the feed and saves it out into a HTML file - could be done quite easily with PHP or Perl (only saying those 2 as I use them)

VirtualAdept · 23 Oct 2008 at 20:53

malef!c said:
Just an idea off the top of me head - is there any sort of RSS feed?

Not to my knowledge, no.

Write a script that grabs the feed and saves it out into a HTML file - could be done quite easily with PHP or Perl (only saying those 2 as I use them)

Totally beyond me I'm afraid, I know nothing of either language. What I've done, I've had a starting point and just tinkered until it looked right.

malef!c · 23 Oct 2008 at 21:36

Ah that makes it a bit tougher - I thought most forums gave you the option for RSS

VirtualAdept · 23 Oct 2008 at 22:17

I'll have a look to see if there's a mod to have RSS... will report back soon.

malef!c · 24 Oct 2008 at 08:39

If you do find it, take a look at PHP SimpleXMl (or something like that), you can grab RSS feeds and write them out as anything you want with about 10 lines of code

VirtualAdept · 24 Oct 2008 at 20:21

Cheers... there is a mod to do it, but I'm gonna have to do it at home when I've got no distractions, as it requires editing fairly major chunks of the forums php.

malef!c · 24 Oct 2008 at 20:26

Cool - good luck!