merge two vbulletins / reward

[Learner29]

Hi all,

I scanned more than a 100 threads and still not found a clear answer.

I need to merge a dead vbulletin forum with a new one. Some users from the old forum registered with the same username on the new forum.

I can guarantee serious reward for anything that works

and please be patient with me, i am new to vbulletin

[Flipsidejones]

i would love something like this too. i am creating a new vB, and want to merge the old one into parts of the new one.

I cant guarantee a reward like Learner29, but i can promise that it will be used. ;)

[LanciaStratos]

I'm also in desparate need for this. Maybe the three of us should go together ($5 per person), and offer $15 for anyone who can create this hack?

[Learner29]

<a href="http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=206575#post206575" target="_blank">http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showt...575#post206575</a>

here is somebody saying he will do it ...

but come on move it guys... five dollars ?? I said serious reward.. I need that script or fix fast.... I am ready to pay for it.

could you do an effort, pay a bit more, and we might encourage James to find time to work on it soon... ???

I am suggesting I would put a reward of $20, can each of you put $15 ? $50 dollars IS serious reward I think.

[over]

u tried making a db backup of the old forum, then importing the database?

[Learner29]

Over,

some of the users of the old board subscribed with the same name or with a different name on the new board. ...

you surely see my point..

[Learner29]

...... and some other users were fast to register with cool names..

so for example Mr. Cool on the old board is not necessarily Mr. Cool on the new board.

of course, Mr. Cool of the new board would not accept you display all the previous posts of Mr. Cool of the old board as his. he did not write that.

[Learner29]

:) :)
take this example, John of the old board is a fervant tory .... John on the new board is NOT AT ALL ....

[JamesUS]

I will get to it as soon as I can :)

[auto]

This is exactly what I need.

James, would some money make you want to finish it a bit quicker than couple of weeks? :rolleyes:

I need it asap, meaning within the next couple of days would be nce.

[JamesUS]

Sorry I missed your ICQ messages earlier, I was out.

I'll do my best, but no promises. I have 2 other jobs that really need finishing first, and have priority because they have been waiting longer. I will definitely do my very best though :)

[Learner29]

thank you so much JamesUS

Really

Thank you. I am very happy with your promise of doing your very best.. I understand you have priorities..

I will be waiting... and so your reward that I promised.

[incursio]

If you're still looking for something, let me know via e-mail.

[Learner29]

I sent you an email, and to everybody else I say :

YES YES I am still waiting for this script or hack to merge two vbulletin 2.0.3 and I am ready to PAY for it.

[auto]

count me in on this as well.

[LanciaStratos]

Originally posted by auto
count me in on this as well. Now, come on, you know you don't want this hack... ;) :D

[Learner29]

JamesUS, any updates on this issue ??

come on buddy, we have been waiting for seriously long time now.

I thought you would try to work on this script before the end of the year..... are you going to work on christmas or what ?? :D

[JamesUS]

I am working on it :) it's getting there.

It's a tough script to write if you do it properly though.

I do work a fair bit over Christmas :( (though not on Christmas day) as do most of the vBulletin Developers/Support Staff

[JamesUS]

On second thoughts, I'm going to need some databases to test this with.

If anyone would like their vBulletin's merged and they would like me to do it for them, then please send me a mail so we can dicsuss the details. I will need the databases on my own server to do the testing. Naturally they will be kept private and deleted when I've finished testing.
I won't be ready to do this for a few more days (maybe a week) but if I start gathering requests now then everyone else can have the script quicker.

[JamesUS]

*bump*

Haven't received any messages about the above yet. Is anyone still interested?

[Learner29]

James I still terribly need this script.....

but i apologize, i can not give you the 14mb and 10mb databases we have....

would it be OK if we make FAKE databases ???

that is I install vbulletin on the server in a new database and create a few users and paste a few posts using the name of each one.

and we do that a second time with another database ....

would that do it ?????

[Learner29]

so ? any answer ?

[JamesUS]

Fake databases are not really what I'm after (I can do those myself). I have a couple of databases to play with now so hopefully those will do for now (though more are of course appreciated). I have a 35mb and a 20mb database that I'm going to try merging this week.

[Learner29]

that is great news. I hope you would be done soon.

am not the only one waiting.... I know 420 people who are....

[LuBi]

I'd love this also.

[hypedave]

I can assisist in this :D

I merged 1,000 to another forum

and all the post and threads

[Learner29]

wow !!!

are we advancing James ?? :) we have got some help here. ....

[hypedave]

users is easy for me, now threads and post, will take some time for me to do

[Learner29]

did you hype take into consideration that some of the users of the old board have registered with the same or another username on the new board. ??

John of old board is not forcedly John on the new board. so ? u know.

[hypedave]

yeah I look for duplicate users and email address.
and if any users have already registered I need those user names as well

[Learner29]

that sounds great. am waiting for any input from you or James, and best of all, from BOTH of you.

I really hope you can work on that together....

James has not had lots of time to work on this script recently because he assumes the support on the vbulletin forums.

if you guys can organize stuff together and get the script done, all of the users above, who have shown interest in the script, would be more than thankful.

I will keep my promise of the reward.

[hypedave]

how many users are on each db

[Learner29]

hype, you are amasingly fast.

great !!

I have got about 250 users on the first , and about 400 on the second...

I know those are baby bulletins in your measures..... :D :D

[hypedave]

since forum A is going to forum B

then while I merge forum A users to forumB users

forum will have to have new user acitivation disabled,

'oh well enough of that, im pissed off at the moment no one from
vbulletin.com or vbulletin.org wants to help me with my ip address problem , so maybe I can file I discruntled members forum and switch over to ikonboad for free :D

you would think someone knows a quick solution but noooo
no one is willing to help me unless I create a hack or something

have a good xmas, and happy new year

[Learner29]

come on hype, take it easy.... it is vacation time for almost everybody and most of vbulletin's employees would be off by now.

;)

[hypedave]

gosh im so freakin stressed out over my board, I wanted it up without glitches for xmas, now I has to post another date

[Learner29]

any updates on this ? if the hack is ready I would be interested.

[Mystic Gohan]

no hack but I will restore your database for you if you want little money but you must have phpmyadmin

[Learner29]

thank you so much my friend. I appreciate your help.

my request was about 7 months ago ..... of course now it is a totally different situation..

If you or anybody else has a means to merge two databases I would be interested.... but it is not any more an urgency now.

[Marshalus]

I talked to JamesUS and he said that this would eventually be a standard feature of vB3. I'd still like to see it happen for vB2 though, as I'm in the exact situation as you are.

[Learner29]

well, thank you Marshalus for the information...

and we are all looking forward to this vb3

everytime i ask about anything, any feature, i am told it is gonna be in vb3..

lol.

what does this vb3 not do then ???