What to do with a vbulletin database? besides using it for a forum

[HUMMER]

I have a forum with about 300 posts and 100 threads... which is pretty much dead (Niche too small). I am going to uninstall vbulletin and wanted to know if there is anything I can do with the database? Can I use the database to create a mini site...if so how do I go about it or does someone have any other suggstions?

[Steve Machol]

The database is unique to vB. What specifically did you want to do with it?

[Mazinger]

Don't even think to take vBulletin database and install it on your forum.

[Mazinger]

Oh, your forum seems to have been hacked. Check out

[HUMMER]

Well I would like to use my vbulletin license on another website... so I was thinking to just use the database kinda of like the "archives" and put some adsense up. Is this possible with vbulletin uninstalled? If so how would I go about it.

http://www.capecodforums.com/index.php

[Steve Machol]

Not sure what you mean but you can only use your vB license on one site.

[HUMMER]

right I know you can only use it on one site..that is why I want to uninstall vbulletin and but still be able to use the database for web content. How would I extract the content from the database?

i.e my database has 86 threads... I would like to turn this into 86 html pages. How would I go about this?

[Marco van Herwaarden]

You will always need software (vBulletin in this case) to retrieve information from a database and present it to visitors. This means that if you want to show your data (posts etc..) you will need to have vBulletin installed and have a valid license for it.

A database is just a storage method for the data.

[HUMMER]

so there is no way to extract the data to create just plain html pages? If I want my own html pages I will have to copy and past everything by hand?

[Steve Machol]

There is no built-in option to do that. This requires custom coding. You can try asking for help with this over at www.vbulletin.org.