WWW-phpBB version 0.03 ====================== DESCRIPTION This module can be used to scrape a phpBB2 installation using the web interface. It requires a local phpBB2 setup (you can download the old 2.x versions from http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpbb/files/phpBB%202/ ) that will be overwritten and it can only access what is available to the web browser (i.e. no private messages or user settings). Make sure the username used during the local installation doesn't exist in the remote forum. Scraping is possible as a guest or as a logged in member. If used with an administrator name and password it will copy all the member e-mails (not just the public ones) allowing them to request a new random password from the new installation site and continue using the forum. The current implementation lacks search support, but this can be fixed by converting the forum to phpBB3 or SMF. The "mforum" script is supported. NOTES - if you have admin access on the remote forum make sure that emailing through the forum interface is disabled - on the local forum you might want to enable remote avatars INSTALLATION To install this module type the following: perl Makefile.PL make install DEPENDENCIES This module requires: WWW::Mechanize Compress::Zlib HTML::TokeParser::Simple DBI DBD::mysql TODO - better smiley set handling; copy smilies along with the post data - parse more search engine friendly URLs COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE Copyright (c) 2006-2011 by Stefan Talpalaru - <stefantalpalaru@yahoo.com> [ email tied to a paypal account in case you want to buy me a cup of tea ;-) ] This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.12.2 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.