Guest to member
 

I was wondering if someone might help me with a script or something (I am clueless) to change former members that are now guests, BACK into members?

I have, in the past, deleted members missing in action for longer than 6 months. But recently, a well loved member died and I am getting a few requests for these folks to re-register, some wishing they still had posts linked to them.

No rush, but it would be nice if someone could help me. :D

Thanks in advance!

You can't change them back. When you delete a user, the whole line with all of their information gets deleted.

I have heard of people having people register and then going through and manually changing the posts to have the new userid, but I don't know what the queries were or how difficult that would be for you.

Sorry, wasn't clear. ;)

No I wasn't expecting all the stats etc to come back, just re-linking the posts with their names on them to revert to their new registration/name.

I'd do it manually, but that could take HOURS/DAYS, I was hoping for a query of some sort to associate the "old_now_guest_name" posts to the "new_not_guest_name" posts.

*shrugs*

try using some of the maintence tools to rebuild the posts information and the such

Create a new account with the old name. Make a note of the new Userid.

Now run the following queries with the correct names and new userid:

[sql]UPDATE post SET userid = <New UserId> WHERE username = 'OLD USERNAME' AND userid = 0;
UPDATE thread SET postuserid = <New UserId> WHERE postusername = 'OLD USERNAME' AND postuserid = 0;[/sql]Not tested, make a backup before running manual queries.

Oh wonderful! Thank you so much Marco!

I was redirected to this solution, but upon trying it out, the following error was produced...

An error occurred while attempting to execute your query. The following information was returned.
error number: 1146
error desc: Table 'vulpes.post' doesn't exist

Can you explain what would be causing that?

You probably have a prefix in front of your table names. So, you need to modify the query to include your prefix (it's in your config.php file).

Odd, I had no issues what so ever, worked a charm.

Hope you can get help!

Issue resolved. Thanks to everyone who lent a suggestion. Especially to Lynne (here) and KW802 (on vBulletin.com).