the perfected (error free :D) Ikonboard->VB Post Convertor

here it is, splat free, i promise :D

[needs_karma]

thanks for making this dude i think alot of people will thank you for this but i dont need it.

[justsomedude]

well, figured i'd give it another whirl.

I started with 2 of my main forums from Ib. The first went through without a hitch...converted over 2000 posts :)
Then there was the second forum. called the page from my browser..hum hum hum everything was going fine, them Boom! got another error :(
This one however was not nearly as severe. all (or at lease most) of the posts converted into the proper forum & there was no merging of the threads. at a glance everything looks fine, but the error was still there. I imagine it simply haulted the process & didn't convert all the posts. Here's the error i received



Creating Topic: 9 Title: Schematics

Creating Post: 1127

Thread number in Database: 1127

Thread filename: 9.thd

Creating Post: 1127

Thread number in Database: 1127

Thread filename: 9.thd

Creating Post: 1127

Thread number in Database: 1127

Thread filename: 9.thd

Creating Post: 1127

Thread number in Database: 1127

Thread filename: 9.thd

Creating Topic: 10 Title: don/'t miss home until ya leave

Creating Post: 1128

Thread number in Database: 1128

Thread filename: 10.thd

Warning: file(".thd") - No such file or directory in /home/justsomesite/htdocs/postconv/forum2/conv.php on line 120


Done Processing!

I'm a little timid to procede until i know there was no damage.

Thanks again LoB! i'm so close i can taste it:)

[LoB]

Originally posted by justsomedude
well, figured i'd give it another whirl.

I started with 2 of my main forums from Ib. The first went through without a hitch...converted over 2000 posts :)
Then there was the second forum. called the page from my browser..hum hum hum everything was going fine, them Boom! got another error :(
This one however was not nearly as severe. all (or at lease most) of the posts converted into the proper forum & there was no merging of the threads. at a glance everything looks fine, but the error was still there. I imagine it simply haulted the process & didn't convert all the posts. Here's the error i received



Creating Topic: 9 Title: Schematics

Creating Post: 1127

Thread number in Database: 1127

Thread filename: 9.thd

Creating Post: 1127

Thread number in Database: 1127

Thread filename: 9.thd

Creating Post: 1127

Thread number in Database: 1127

Thread filename: 9.thd

Creating Post: 1127

Thread number in Database: 1127

Thread filename: 9.thd

Creating Topic: 10 Title: don/'t miss home until ya leave

Creating Post: 1128

Thread number in Database: 1128

Thread filename: 10.thd

Warning: file(".thd") - No such file or directory in /home/justsomesite/htdocs/postconv/forum2/conv.php on line 120


Done Processing!

I'm a little timid to procede until i know there was no damage.

Thanks again LoB! i'm so close i can taste it:)

that just means it got to the end of the threads.. if i wasn't lazy i'd create an error handler to exit the script when the filename was "" ;) , nothing to worry about, just means all the threads for that particular forum were converted...

[justsomedude]

phewww... I will now commence converting :)

:justsomedude humbly bows to LoB in appreciation for his (or her) efforts :D:

[LoB]

him
trust me :p

[Dave#]

Very very nice work sir

[justsomedude]

all done!! worked like a charm!!!!:D

converted over 12,000 posts with no problem.

Thank's once again Lob :D

[LoB]

cool, once i understand the whacky way they coded VB i should be able to do some more of the advanced stuff, god it's so cryptic trying to understand other peoples code :)

oh check out the multi race rank hack further down (or up?) the page, my personal hack :D

[Dimitri]

Worked just fine for me as well. Got the error at the end but everything came over correctly. Thanks for this script, I've been waiting for a few months now. :cool:

[eGoR]

this is amazing work, doode.many thx