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How to convert phpBB board to static archive page?

I used to run a phpBB forum for our class in school but we have now graduated and the forum isn't used anymore. I want to remove the phpBB installation but there is a lot written in the forum that is fun to read now and then.

I wonder if there is an easy way to convert the phpBB forum to some kind of static archive page that anyone can browse and read, instead of having the full phpBB installation.

I guess I could create some kind of converter myself using the database tables but I wonder if there already is something like that.

Solution

  • You could write a quick php script, to query the database and generate a flat HTML file. 

    ...
<body>
    <table>
        <tr>
            <th>Topic</th>
            <th>Author</th>
            <th>Content</th>
        </tr>

        // Query php Database Table
        foreach (Row in tblComment) {
            echo " 
            <tr>
                <th>$topic</th>
                <th>$author</th>
                <th>$content</th>
            </tr>
            "
        }

    </table>
</body>
...

    Or you could get a little fancier and generate a HTML file for each subject, and build a index.html page that has links to all the HTML pages created, but I don't think you'll find anything that does what you need.