PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
I wish to create bridge between forums, Gateway i call them.
HOW IT'S WORKS
1. Forum A under PhpBB create a sub-Forum call "Meta-Forum"
2. Forum B under XenForo create a sub-Forum called "Meta-Forum"
3. As soon as someone post in either forum, the post get replicated to the other forum.
4. It must replicated: Thread, post, reply and all moderation actions: delete, edit, sticky, etc...
THE SERVICE:
- This should be built as a third party service that can provide the features for forum admins.
- Client should be able to create Account and then create our gateway.
- When we create a gateway, it start monitoring forums activity every minute.
- We configure the gateway by giving him the path to replicate.
- Replication can be one way or both way and can be customized. For example, we could replicated all blizzard post to a guild forums.
- To easily support the system, we should be able to login as a user (simulate user) so we can configure our debug a Gateway
DUPLICATE NICKNAME:
As it's highly likely we have duplicate nickname on 2 forums. So we create a Gateway prefix. So people on Forum A will see all the username fro Forum B with a prefix. (Ex: TBW_nick)
BOT PROTECTION:
We need to be able to whitelist this service so it's not detected as a bot for the user creation and thread / post action...
BACK-END DETAILS:
- The system will automatically create a new user for each of the post / thread it need to create.
- It will store user information and update them as needed.
PROJECT MILESTONE:
1. Create account on the service. User management, administrator management.
2. Integrate Google Authentification, Twitter or Facebook Login.
3. Create a gateway. Include:
-- Gateway details (Source, Destination)
-- Gateway Nick Prefix
-- Destination forums admin login / password
-- Automatically detect forums technologies
-- Create Test User on destination forums
4. Replication. Include:
-- Read all new thread and post
-- Create all required gateway prefix user on destination forums.
-- Replicate all thread and post on destination forums.
-- Save stats and report on the Gateway info page
5. Advance Replication. Include:
-- Error management
-- Moderation / edit replication
-- Sticky, delete and other advanced thread management
6. Advance replication
-- Exclusion rules
-- Inclusion rules (Post only by regex, author, moderator, administrator, etc...)
-- Replication of a post search result
-- Automatically disable gateway on x errors
7. Automation
-- Cron job
-- Report and monitoring
-- Self healing on error
Technologies to support: VBulletin, XenForo and PhpBB.
CONCLUSION:
This project is insanely complex yet exciting for anyone involved in a forums management. I wish to reproduce the old Gateway features from FirstClass bbs system... I cannot afford paying you all the money for the project, it need to be either a pet project or something you wish to work on for your personal skill.
Also: Should we develop this as a webscrapper tecnhnologie that simulate user or should we develop add-on / plugs-in for each of the forums technologies.
HOW TO BID:
Show a sample of web scrapping. Get the last 10 posts from the various thread in General.
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My budget is fixed: 1 000$
I have made a bridge between AV Arcade and Vshare so I enjoyed that job.. as i am experienced coder so if you give me response I can take a detailed on on both forums.. thanks