Change Guest to User on threads (EZBoard)

[feldon23]

Originally Posted by Alex Apple

I'm in the same boat. I'm about to convert an ezboard over to vBulletin but this user question is going to be key.

The only way I think this might be possible is use the ezboard-->phpBB converter available here, which I've tested and which seems to work quite well. It's basically a spider, but which creates dummy accounts. It gives all the dummy usernames the same dummy password and email, but it's obviously changeable (bit of a security risk though). I'm currently planning to do the ezb-->phpBB import, and then use Impex to import the phpBB database. It's a bit long-winded, but I can't see much other of a way round.

I tried to rewrite the EZBoard user importer posted here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=31443

to work with vBulletin 3 but I have failed. I am now having to restore a forum database because of it.

The problem is that one of the users I imported has an apostrophe in their name.


EDIT: Please see the updated version of this script later down the page that fixes various bugs and cleans up the rest of the code.