Possible to run a script that creates forums off a list...?

[PNP]

I apologize if this is the wrong forum, it seems to discuss mods, etc., and "how to" so I figure it is my best bet. I also apologize for not searching to see if this has been posted because - to be honest - I don't know if what I want has a name... but let me describe it.

I have to create, or should I say, want to create a unique forum for each title on my site. I understand virtually all will never be used but whatever. This will mean I have to manually create around 30,000 forums. I started on this task - did about 250. I don't really want to devote that much time to doing it. I was wondering if I could create a list of those 30,000 titles and run some sort of script that would create the forums for me. In case anyone is wondering, none of these forums will be "displayed" on the main page.

Does what I am requesting make sense? I can provide more information if needed.

Thanks

[Jake Bunce]

You would need a custom script to create forums from a list like that. But more important is the fact that vBulletin probably won't be able to handle that many forums. When you have excessive numbers of forums the datastore cache becomes huge which kills your performance because of the huge memory overhead of every page load. I don't know of any way around this practical limit.

[PNP]

Thanks for the reply. On the subject of maximum number of forums - do you have a more practical number I should stick to. Or a number I should probably not exceed - no more than 500, 1000, 10,000?

[Jake Bunce]

I don't know a specific number. I have seen forums with 100-200 forums that run fine.

[PNP]

Thanks, Jake.