tForum Convert..?

Hi Guys,

I currently use http://titan.spaceports.com/~typus/tforum/ and wish to change over to vBulletin.

tForum is mysql based. Is there some hack that will import the files from tforum to vbulletin?

Can anyone make this?

Thanks

What version are you running?

-jim

Hi,

Thanks for your help. I have version b0.91p3
I have the files here if you need me to send you them.

No one can help me out :(

Please?

Good Luck, I just did a table dump/data dump then manually edited all the users so they are in Vbulletin. I should have just gone with this from the start.

Shak,

I know it might sound dumb, but how did you do that dump? And how'd you edit the users?

Can you PLEASE list here what steps you took?

Thanks

I took a look at tForum, but the table structure is a lot different than vBulletin's - it wasn't as easy as I would have hoped. I could do this, but it would be more of an undertaking than I have time to take on.

Sorry.

-jim

[Smidge]

anyone have success with this tForum conversion yet? I'd like to migrate a quite large tForum into vB aswell...

[Dontom]

Importing user db was easy - importing posts was hell - tforum ist bad normalized - thread + forum ID are both in the posts table:confused:
Finallay I did this partly manually (2000 posts, in Excel, 1 Night) and am happy to be @ vb now...
good luck!
Tom

[Bender]

Originally posted by Dontom
...Finallay I did this partly manually (2000 posts, in Excel, 1 Night) and am happy to be @ vb now...
good luck!
Tom
Could you describe the steps you took in Excel? I am very much in the same situation right now and I could use some help ;) I am familiar with phpMyAdmin, but not really with Excel :p

[Bender]

Yesterday night I finally finished converting my tForum to vBulletin. I wrote a php script to transfer the posts / threads form the tForum database to the vBulletin database (for increased difficulty, I have two seperate databases ;) ).
You must have transferred the user database which should be a cakewalk using phpMyAdmin.

To use this script and transfer your databases, do the following:

1. Check the ForumID of the source and target forum.
2. Modify the transfer.php script by changing database, username, password, source and target board ids, and the userIDs in the 'IF' - section.
3. Point your browser to the script. If you didn't get any errors, everything should be fine.
4. Repeat step 1.-3. for every board you want to transfer.

I know the script is kinda akward to use and it could of course be much more comfortable, but it became late yesterday, I was tired and not motivated enough to make this script nicer to handle. Sorry ;)