I have just used this in a live setup. Merging a sister forum to the one that I currently have. The seconary forum only had about 600 users and 8000 posts compared to the current one that had 80000 odd posts.

The results, 100% perfect.

The user merger is a God send with multiple ID's.

I cannot rate this hack high enough 10/10.

I'm glad to hear that.

Right now, the script is in beta, so please, check your forums... Currently, there seems to be a bug with the poll merger.

I have reproduced the problem in my localhost forums, and I'm hunting for the bug right now!

Actually, you unfairly De-Admined me, and that's when all of the users saw that and crossed over...Now they can get back all that they worked for...But let's not get into that here, I just wanted to clear the air, since you love to lie...

Hopefully it DOES work...It's our intellectual Property, WE wrote it, your stuff's gonna just get deleted...

Anyway...

I applaud you for this hack...You've done us a great service in gaining back our lost history...I thank you, and my community thanks you...We worked hard for those posts, only to have that guy take it all away from us in the end...He's upset because we started a new site, and abandoned his...I will be implimenting this hack soon, and I'll let you know how it goes...Considering I paid for part of the old license, and none of his intellectual property will be carried over, I think whatever transpires will be nothing illegal...

He didn't post that stuff, WE did...Nothing in the License agreement states anything against any of this, and most of the old stuff is just going into archives anyway...

Ahhh, to relive the good ol' days once again ;)

Actualy the posts remain the property of the site and its owner so if you do decide to merge his database into yours then you are breaking the copyright laws, and I would recomend he takes it to a court to sort out.

I had this a while back and was advised I had grounds to take legal action against the person(s) who did it. the site in question was imediately removed from the server it was hosted on.

The domain name owner provides the site on the understanding that all the content of the site is the property of him regardless of who posted it.

You were just an admin and not holding the position of owning the domain and so if you do this then he can simply contact your domain host and have your site removed for theft of content.

Its the same as me importing my posts from here into my own bulletin board, it just aint going to happen.

BTW you also import his members who may not want to go to your site, this also includes all thier PRIVATE MESSAGES as well as other personal info that they may not wish YOU to have access to. Each of them can activly prosecute you for theft of their intelectual property as the importer imports all the threads and members and does not distinguish them, this means that you have already done the dead before you delete them so the crime has already been commited.

By holding a copy of his database he has grounds enough there to prosecute you for unlawfull theft of his property.

So dont break out the champagne out yet m8

HM

I had this situation about a year ago. About 1000 members on my site were from a UBB, before I converted to vBulletin. An admin of my site [who paid for neither the UBB, vB, hosting or domains] left the site in protest over banner ads, and when he later decided to return found he wasn't an admin, started threatening to start his own site with the UBB backup. He had no legal basis to stand on, not that I'm saying law and morality are always the same thing.

Whoa installed this just now, excellent for merging users accounts. :D Thanks!

Do the two database schemas have to be identical?

For instance, a highly hacked production forum with extra fields in tables and a plain, unhacked out-of-the-box test forum. How does this util handle that situation, if it does at all?

I haven't tested it with hacked databases, but it should work fine.

Let me know if you have any problem running the script with hacked databases.

I can answer this one... :)

The database I merged with a hacked one, but with different hacks then the destinaton database. It was also a couple of revisions of vBulletin earlier.

I merged it into a hacked database as well. As an example, not active as I have removed the PHP, the database they were merged into had stuff like the Quiz and the Store installed. They also have the Awards installed and the user accounts that were merged worked fine with the active destination accounts that were award enabled.

Harvey.

Your answer would seem to indicate it works, but how? Does it drop the extra fields when populating the target database? And if the target has extra fields itself, does it populate them based on the field default values?