ezboard

[chrispadfield]

Don't know if this has been asked properly, search did not come up with much.

I have recently been looking at http://www.ezboard.com and there are thousands of boards there:

http://pub13.ezboard.com/BBSCategory.showCategory

some with lots of posts (ie over 20,000). Why i am interested is there are some sites that have showed interest in merging into my forum.

What is needed is of course a script to do this. I assume this is going to be harder to do because the board is located off server, ie is a free hosted solution.

Still, there is a huge potential market out there (i know it is free but ezboard is better than UBB by many people's reconing). So any chance of an import script here? Would vBulletin sponsor one?

I think it would be a really good idea and would be preprared to pay something for it.

After my failed attempt to get a boardpower script i wonder if this is possible but then ezboard is just a little bit more popular than boardpower :)

Please help out, could prove very useful

[eva2000]

well i managed to archive 1/30th of my ezboard forum on vbulletin at http://animeboards.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?forumid=15

how ? manually copy and pasting the posts :eek:

[chrispadfield]

That is what i did for my old boardpower forum, 1500 posts worth each done individually. It took forever. There is this forum i would like to merge with 4,000 posts and i really do not want to have to do it that way again!

[doron]

Is there a way to show all members for a board?

The main problem here is that there is no database to connect to like in the ubb. You'd have to parse through html files, that is annoying.

[eva2000]

yeah i still have 3000 ezboard posts to move over... you could always assign several people to cut and paste - sort them by months

so this person does all posts from march 1999 - april 1999 and this person does all posts from april 1999 - may 1999 etc...

[chrispadfield]

That is what I did, i literally cut and paste each individual post under the username archiver! ekk it took ages.

It would have to be parsing through html files I guess. I am going to look now if there are common cut off tags that could be used for the start of a post.

Is anybody with experience interested in making this sort of mod? It would be very very useful!

[doron]

chrispadfield - well, first, you need to get all users listed and inserted into the db. Is itpossible to get a list of all users of a certain forum on ezboard?

[eva2000]

nope no access to list of users in the actual database... but you can get their names from the admin area... no password of user details viewable at a glance though..