The function processquotes does not seem to be working for me. The routine is changing my WebBBS quote symbol into the tempsymbol okay, but the conversion of lines preceded by the tempsymbol into vBulletin quoted text just isn't happening. I'm getting the tempsymbol appearing in my posts.

I've not changed processquotes at all, but I'm afraid my PHP isn't good enough to check how it works. My initial thought was that I'd maybe copies the WebBBS files into the conversion directory as binary files (I can tell that processquotes needs the tempsymbol to start the line), but, after I carefully recopied the files, I was able to rule that out.

Any other suggestions?

[Later]:

I added to the function, and this solved the problem. I imagine that I'm going to have to make $last_indent global as well, though I haven't investgated this yet. I'm just glad to have got this one mysterious bug out of the way.

It's gone two in the morning and it's waaaay past my bedtime.

[Added in the morning]:

Of course $last_indent doesn't need to be global. It's only used to communicate between the processing of lines of a single message.

Is this for WebBBS by Darryl Burgdorf?

Yes.

Thanks for the reply. I though so but I looked for something like this a couple of years ago and didn't find anything so I gave up. I'll have to test this. If it works, I've got several thousand posts in a webbbs forum I had up between 1997 and 1998 which I wouldn't mind importing for 'history'.

I am still looking for someone to import 3 old web bbs forums for me into Vbulletin. I will pay $85.00 for this work.

If you can provide enough data, Jelsoft might want to add webbbs support to the official ImpEx utility. Try asking at vbulletin.com

Would be the best way to go.

I appreciate your suggestion.

Someone has created a conversion script posted here, and I have read o various success stories in using it, but I was not able to get it to work myself, so was hopeful that someone that was familar with working with it could do the import for me.

Gary

In the conversion file posted by tgmorris in Dec 2003, the following appears:

**** IMPORTANT ****
In order for this script to keep track of messages and to later serve as a reference
point for old bookmarked messages, you will need to make a change to your vBulletin
mySQL database. You will need to insert rows into the "post" table of the
vBulletin database. THIS SCRIPT WON'T WORK WITHOUT THE ADDITION OF THESE ROWS!

i.e. ALTER TABLE post ADD COLUMN originalid int(5);
ALTER TABLE post ADD COLUMN previousid int(5);

Is this really required? After reading the above commented lines, I assume this is for when users have bookmarked posts found in WebBBS and so they can find the same posts when searching in vBulletin. I wonder will the script work fine if I don't amend the 'post' tables in vBulletin...

Yes, it is required to determine where the posts will be inserted. Old bookmarks will not work without altering showthread.php and using something like mod_rewrite or a custom perl script to point to the proper vbulletin page.

Hey just wanted to say huge Thanks! I used the modified script for vB3 and it seems to have worked like a charm. It's only a small forum (a few hundred messages) but it means a lot to the site owner. Awesome :) :)