Log Archiving

[alek]

Huzzah!! The site is back up!!

So, is there a way to archive a thread on the forum that produces a "nice" output--like a .txt file or something similar of all the entries as they are input in the text editor?

That'd be a pretty useful thing to have.

[Manveer]

Huzzah!! The site is back up!!

So, is there a way to archive a thread on the forum that produces a "nice" output--like a .txt file or something similar of all the entries as they are input in the text editor?

That'd be a pretty useful thing to have.

I don’t see any phpbb extensions that are already made with this functionality. If there are any, let me know.

I don’t have experience creating extensions for phpbb. If anyone else on the forum does and wants to make this, let me know.

I’m a little hesitant to even suggest this given how terrible HostGator is, but… a roundabout way would be to create a web scraping script to download the full HTML from each page in a thread. Just put some pauses in there so you don’t crash the site.

[alek]

Huzzah!! The site is back up!!

So, is there a way to archive a thread on the forum that produces a "nice" output--like a .txt file or something similar of all the entries as they are input in the text editor?

That'd be a pretty useful thing to have.

I don’t see any phpbb extensions that are already made with this functionality. If there are any, let me know.

I don’t have experience creating extensions for phpbb. If anyone else on the forum does and wants to make this, let me know.

I’m a little hesitant to even suggest this given how terrible HostGator is, but… a roundabout way would be to create a web scraping script to download the full HTML from each page in a thread. Just put some pauses in there so you don’t crash the site.

Yeah, I'm not savvy enough to write such a script, so no worries about that. And I certainly don't want to do anything that'll jeopardize the site.

[mgil]

@alek, if you have an apple device with a later version of the iOS:

https://mashable.com/article/how-to-scr ... iphone?amp

This allows you to screenshot an entire page as a searchable .pdf.

It’s not the best thing, but it’s a decent shortcut.

[alek]

alek, if you have an apple device with a later version of the iOS:

https://mashable.com/article/how-to-scr ... iphone?amp

This allows you to screenshot an entire page as a searchable .pdf.

It’s not the best thing, but it’s a decent shortcut.

Thanks! That works out great!