Taking Posts made in PHPBB and putting them outside the foru

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Re: Taking Posts made in PHPBB and putting them outside the foru

Post by TanisLinkEragon »

muse-ic wrote: ^ that doesn't make sense

It means that it is a forum created for testing purposes, and will be deleted when I'm done testing, and that only one person has tried to help me solve my problem.

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I am interested to write a function like get_post_contents( $post_number) that will return either empty string or post contents. Any hint?

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I'll draw it up and either post it on Nils' Olympus Wiki, or STG on or after the first of the year.
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the short of it, (as best i understand) is so:
  • construct a parse_message object (look in message_parser.php), let's call it $parser
  • loop through the unparsed messages you extracted from the db, such:
    1. set $parser->message = $unparsed_message;
    2. call $parser->parse();
    3. now $parser->message supposedly contained the parsed message (bbcode replaced by html), ready to use
  • note that this retrieves the message body only. no poster, subject, or signature.
caveats (partial list):
  • this is an outline, not a code snippet. you'll have to figure out by yourself how to construct the object, and what are the parameters of the parse() call.
    (i assume that if you are able to extract the messages you want from the db, you'll be able to figure this by yourself.)
  • be prepared for surprises. for instance: the smilies may point to image files with relative path, which may or may not be the correct path for your purpose. same may (or may not) be true for attached files.
  • not sure what's the deal with censoring. it is possible you'll get the uncensored content.
  • this is based on my understanding of the code, by means of reading it. i did not try it myself, and i don't guarantee that this outline will actually do the job.
hope it helps,

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Highway of Life wrote: I'll draw it up and either post it on Nils' Olympus Wiki, or STG on or after the first of the year.

Highway, where is Nils' Olympus Wiki? And should I make a request for the function at STG?

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His Wiki is here: http://olympuswiki.naderman.de
It's in not the official phpBB3 wiki, but it's the only phpBB3 Wiki I know of, so it'll work.

And if you want put in a request, sure, I'll add any feature requests if you post them.

Edit, what in the world, I can't get the URL to work. (for .de)
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Hmm, within a couple of hours of Highway of Life posting the link some jackass had already messed with the front page. [sigh]

Whoever 82.40.102.160 is needs to find something better to do with their life. :roll:
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I just got in there. It's still working.

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ngungo wrote: I just got in there. It's still working.


You'll have to look at the history. It's not like I was gonna leave it messed up.
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