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Does anyone have any experience of MySQL databases, extracting data from a website etc? We need to get the database of this forum but it can't be released to us. I believe there are ways of doing it but need some help here.

May even need someone to program an import script.

Any input appreciated.

Justin

Don't you need to be the administrator of the site (not the administrator of the forum) to access this data? I'd be very worried if you can remotely download such information without having specific access rights as many websites run MySQL databases and this would be classified as hacking, wouldn't it?

Quite possible, I've seen many threads discussing it but no-one has stated that it shouldn't be done. I will of course check out the legalities of everything first

If you have access to the host, there are a number of ways it could be done - from the simple (log in to your control panel) to the sublime (run a PHP script to download the entries). However, if you're running off a free host, they may restrict how much access you have by only giving you a front end to your forum.

You need someone with a bit of savvy to look at the options open to you. It'd be difficult for anyone to give a concise answer without either having run a forum from this site before, or having access to whatever you have access to.

My guess would be that you won't be able to do it because this isn't like running the forum on your own server (like I do).