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tkeil69575
11-28-2001, 12:02 AM
Has anyone developed an import script for Discuss?

greetings
tina
Meta
11-28-2001, 09:11 AM
Oh yes ... that would be really wonderful!
hidjra
01-05-2002, 08:29 AM
I really need this hack too!
marocnl
01-24-2002, 09:00 AM
Can some one help us with this? I also need an import script from Discuss (www.discusware.com).
marocnl
01-31-2002, 03:35 PM
Still nothing, does anbody have a solution for this?....
intinig
02-04-2002, 08:12 PM
I am trying to work on it, but I'm still at the beginning because I just switched to vbulletin and I am thinking about the best way to do it.
tkeil69575
02-04-2002, 09:21 PM
well i it did finally by exporting the threads and user file as csv files from discuss, then importing them into ms excel, sorting and adding the missing colums needed for vbulletin and then saving it again as a new csv file and then uploading it with phpmyadmin to the vbulletin databank. it took me approx. 1 week for 6000 posts with approx. 200 users.

I never want to have to do that again though ;)

greetings tina
intinig
02-09-2002, 03:19 PM
Can you go a bit more in detail? I'm having problems trying to import discus into vbulletin.
intinig
02-10-2002, 09:28 PM
Ok, I've been able to import discus into vbulletin.
I have used three scripts I wrote, one for the users, one for the topics and one for the posts. It worked fine, there were just some minor glitches (like some anonymous posts and so on). It required one day of work to write the scripts and to import into vbulletin.
Meta
02-27-2002, 04:05 PM
Oh well ... fantastic!

Are you willing to share your scripts with us?
dizzy2002
03-14-2002, 01:54 PM
yeeeees, i would like to know about that scripts as well!
intinig
04-05-2002, 06:11 AM
I will post them as soon as I get back home. They're not very polished though, so please pay attention.
Meta
04-05-2002, 11:19 AM
Hey fantastic!

We are waiting for you.
Meta
04-07-2002, 08:55 AM
(Poor boy ... still not at home ...)
svoec
04-09-2002, 08:08 PM
Wonder when he is getting home,... this would be really handy for me also...


:confused:
williampsam
04-15-2002, 07:17 PM
Uhhhm, Must be a long ride home.
I really don't want to suject my friends to registering again, and to have a blank forums again.
Importer would be very cool, I can than kill Discus from my server and have a nice clean system.
svoec
04-15-2002, 07:34 PM
I agree!!

what do you think we could do to make him drive faster
Meta
07-08-2002, 07:48 PM
(My Bonny is over the ocean. My Bonny is over the sea. My Bonny is over the ocean ... oh bring back my Bonny to me. I'm afraid, someone has to inform the authorities. Must have been happended something ... an accident or something like that. Or ... it's a very very very long way home.)
svoec
07-08-2002, 07:51 PM
yea... it must be a planet out of this solar system :)
intinig
09-30-2003, 08:07 AM
God, how stupid am I? I never posted those scripts :|

Let me see if I am able to find them on our server because I surely don't have them on my local pc anymore :)
Meta
10-03-2003, 02:41 PM
"Same procedure as last year?"

"Same procedure as every year."
intinig
10-03-2003, 03:12 PM
Actually I lost them but I feel so ashamed to have betrayed you all that I will work on some discus importer, promised :)
Meta
10-06-2003, 08:47 AM
Lovely.

So i will keep waiting.

Thank You for your work. Or a least for your goodwill!
intinig
10-07-2003, 06:42 AM
Ok now I need your help. I don't have discus anymore on our server. I need someone to send me exported discus data: There's a user.txt in the discus_admin directory that contains all the users, but I also need the exported data for the topics and the posts. I don't remember where discus stores them though, so I assume they should be exportable from the control panel. Let me know please :)