WWW-phpBB version 0.02 ====================== DESCRIPTION This module can be used to scrape a phpBB instalation using the web interface. It requires a local phpBB setup that will be overwritten and it can only access what is available to the web browser (no private messages or user settings). Scraping is possible as a guest or as a loged in member. If used with an administrator name and password it will copy all the members' 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 problem will disappear if you convert the forum to SMF. The "mforum" script is supported. INSTALLATION To install this module type the following: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install DEPENDENCIES This module requires: WWW::Mechanize Compress::Zlib HTML::TokeParser::Simple DBI DBD::mysql TODO - better smile set handling; copy smileys along with the post data - parse search engin friendly URLs COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE Copyright (C) 2006 by Stefan Talpalaru - This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.8 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.