Who Can Code This?
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Would you be scraping the content from other forums or copy/pasting?
If you copy/pasted 100 thread titles (and their first post) and put them into some format, it would be easier to register 50 new users (automatically) and then insert a bunch of fake posts and threads into the database, rather than trying to actually make use of the forum software and lots of POST requests.
If you copy/pasted 100 thread titles (and their first post) and put them into some format, it would be easier to register 50 new users (automatically) and then insert a bunch of fake posts and threads into the database, rather than trying to actually make use of the forum software and lots of POST requests.
yeah i was thinking it would be scraped and automatically posted. it would check to see if the page is indexed in google so it doesnt get any duplicate content, then would paste away. maybe you would set it up with 2 or 3 members and fill in the login/passwords, then fill in what forum you want to scrape from and then magic... forum scraper heaven
of course i'm not thinking of it from the programmers' point of view, although i'm fairly certain something like this is possible. difficulty... dunno
of course i'm not thinking of it from the programmers' point of view, although i'm fairly certain something like this is possible. difficulty... dunno
In this situation the more dynamic the harder.
At the bare minimum you need to get old unique content setup as posts on your forum. In addition to that you could:
1. Automate the creation of fake user accounts
2. Automate the discovery of the old content
3. Automate the discover of scraping said content
4. Automate the insertion of said content into the forum DB
How hard do you want it?
At the bare minimum you need to get old unique content setup as posts on your forum. In addition to that you could:
1. Automate the creation of fake user accounts
2. Automate the discovery of the old content
3. Automate the discover of scraping said content
4. Automate the insertion of said content into the forum DB
How hard do you want it?
For the account creation, just auto-add about 300 users into the users table based on a first name database.
Then take the first record ID and the last record ID and choose a random ID, use that as each post. Where ID != Last Chosen ID, to make sure they don't reply to themselves.
Then choose the old content and/or scraped content.
Just tryin' to help.
Then take the first record ID and the last record ID and choose a random ID, use that as each post. Where ID != Last Chosen ID, to make sure they don't reply to themselves.
Then choose the old content and/or scraped content.
Just tryin' to help.
would it be possible to do this straight in the sql db instead of trying to make it a browser-based app?
just a suggestion...
just a suggestion...
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