Kaoness wrote:I do not know if this has been discussed or not. My searching was to no avail.
But...
My wife and I are writing a book with some friends using PHPBB as the pen and the paper.
When we are done, as opposed to letting an editor read 5000 posts, I would like to be able to export the entire contents of the posts themselves to a text file, Html page or something similar.
Is it possible?
Likely?
Stupid?
it's quite possible and pretty simple, too - you'll mainly want to run a simple SQL query against the corresponding tables to export only the postings themselves in plain text format. You can probably find various MODs at phpBB.com that do exactly this already. Apart from that, it's really not a big deal to implement, so just in case that you shouldn't be able to find existing solutions for this, feel free to get back to me, so that I can provide you with a corresponding patch file.
Besides, the "print view" of a thread can most likely already do what you need, too.
