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email to phpBB forum
Posted on 2004-09-14
Is there a simple way to take an email archive (mailing list) and import it into a forum created with phpBB. This would have to be sorted by the email subject and have some filtering options available.
Thanks
Peregian
Thanks
Peregian
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What do you mean? Import your mailing list into where?
You can run a MySQL query to import the email addresses into your PHPbb database.
You can run a MySQL query to import the email addresses into your PHPbb database.
Hi Peregian
Check this out
http://www.phpbbhacks.com/download/3016
it will allow you to import your mailing list in the form of a csv
Hope this helps
Michael
Check this out
http://www.phpbbhacks.com/download/3016
it will allow you to import your mailing list in the form of a csv
Hope this helps
Michael
Yes, import a mailing list archive into phpBB bulletin board database. I just want a simple way to do that. So it would become a searchable archive in a forum. I want it to just group all messages by email subject.
What format is your original mailing list in?
If it is like this?
user@email.com - Subject1
another@user.com - Hello!
A simple PHP script to insert all the data into the database.
<?php
$link=mysql_connect('local
$list = file('mailinglist.txt');
foreach ($list as $line_num => $line)
{
$data = explode(' - ',$line);
mysql_query("INSERT INTO emails ('email','subject') VALUES('.$data[0].','.$dat
}
?>
I can't actually test any php at the moment, but I hope that the above code may guide you.
=)
If it is like this?
user@email.com - Subject1
another@user.com - Hello!
A simple PHP script to insert all the data into the database.
<?php
$link=mysql_connect('local
$list = file('mailinglist.txt');
foreach ($list as $line_num => $line)
{
$data = explode(' - ',$line);
mysql_query("INSERT INTO emails ('email','subject') VALUES('.$data[0].','.$dat
}
?>
I can't actually test any php at the moment, but I hope that the above code may guide you.
=)
The original list could be exported into many formats I suppose but I was thinking csv would be easiest to work with. That script may look simple but I have no idea how to run it. Would I have to upload the list and the script to my hosts webserver and run it from there somehow?
You'll have to excuse my dumbness on this subject :o)
You'll have to excuse my dumbness on this subject :o)
To run the script, select everything between and including <?php and ?> then save that in notepad or something similar, as 'emailscript.php'. You will need to change some things, like the 'dbuser', 'dbpass' and the $file variable.
You can export your original list as CSV, but make sure to change the ' - ' in the explode function to be ','
Change the values in the mysql_query() to represent those of your database table.
Also, if you want to use more information from the email information, you can use $data[2],[3],etc. Every time the explode function hits your explode character (' - ') it will dump the results into the $data[] array which will increment each time it finds a new ' - '.
So once you've made all the changes to that script, you upload the emailscript.php and the mailinglist.txt to your host, then run the location of the script in your address bar. It should work automatically, but like I said; I'm afraid I can't test it!
Good luck! =)
You can export your original list as CSV, but make sure to change the ' - ' in the explode function to be ','
Change the values in the mysql_query() to represent those of your database table.
Also, if you want to use more information from the email information, you can use $data[2],[3],etc. Every time the explode function hits your explode character (' - ') it will dump the results into the $data[] array which will increment each time it finds a new ' - '.
So once you've made all the changes to that script, you upload the emailscript.php and the mailinglist.txt to your host, then run the location of the script in your address bar. It should work automatically, but like I said; I'm afraid I can't test it!
Good luck! =)
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