pyPhpBB2Static

A Python script to migrate a phpBB 3 forum into static HTML pages.

CAUTION: Consider this to be pre-alpha code. Make a backup of your phpBB database before running this tool. USE IS ENTIRELY AT YOUR OWN RISK.

First released 2015-11-29 by Anthony Lopez-Vito of Another Cup of Coffee Limited http://anothercoffee.net

All code is released under The MIT License. Please see LICENSE.txt.

Installation and use

1. Module depenendies are in the requirements.txt file
2. Copy settings-template.yml to settings.yml and enter your phpBB database credentials
3. Customise the html files in templates/
4. Run python phpbb2static.py
5. Static HTML files will be placed in an export/ directory

Credits

MySQL queries and basic logic are based on the phpBB2HTML script. That script didn't work for me so I wrote my own version in Python.