"Tricking" the data base [ Threads / Posts ]

[mike01166]

Here is what I am trying to do. My club had a forum for 3+ Years on a free forum called proboards. There was no way of us obtaining a database from proboards that we could import into Vbulletin.

So we bought webhosting and vbulletin, and are setting up or new forum exactly the same as our old forum. One thing we have been doing is updating members post counts and join dates to reflect old post counts and join dates. Something I was trying to do was update the new vbulletins thread/post count that appears on the bottom of the forum.

What I tried doing was going into PHP Myadmin and went to the "forum" table and editing replycount and threadcount to match our old forums. It worked, after it all was done, we had our original thread/ post count from our old forum.

Whenever we started a new thread on the new forum, it would just add one more thread/post to the overall count, BUT , if ANY threads get deleted, it RE-tallies the overall posts and lowers it to reflect the actual number of threads/posts. Is there anyway we could make it so that this does not happen.

Thanks in advance. Mike.