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November 30, 2011 5:16pm
Subscribe [3]#1 / Nov 30, 2011 5:16pm
HI,
I have an EE 1.6.8 site with EE forums 2.1.0. A client needs to export all posts for a time period for legal reasons. Is there a way to export posts with the username and other items and in a threaded format? Could be a plain text file, or even an HTML page, it doesn’t matter.
This would be about 15,000 posts.
#2 / Dec 01, 2011 10:28am
My first thought would be to use phpmyadmin to do it….this would export the posts with the user number rather than name…
See enclosed - this is the info in the forum_posts file. So you can search for them in phpmysql using unix time and output to one big text file.
#3 / Dec 01, 2011 8:26pm
Hi tpayton,
This is not currently possible out of the box. However as handyman suggested you could do this using am sql query to export them to a format that works best for you, perhaps XML.
If you like, I could move this thread to community support.
Sean