phpBB Importer Ready!

UPDATE: Please make sure to read the last posts. The beginning of the thread is kinda old, so please don't think this is how it works. Read the last posts.

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Hello. This is my first time posting here, so I hope I make a good first impression

Anyways...I just finished my phpBB 1.4.0 Convertor Utility, allthough I don't have an actual phpBB 1.4.0 DB to test it on. All I did was use a DB with 2 forums, one topic, and one post . Anyways, if you have phpBB 1.4.0, or any other kind of phpBB (Convert it to 1.4.0, of course ), please please help me test this.

If you find an error or some way of crashing or messing up the process, please tell me what happened. Also, if you could send me a copy of the database you are using, that would be greatly appreciated. Please don't think I'll steal your PWs, because they are MD5 encoded.

Known Bugs:

• Does not make private forums private while converting

When it is converting, all the user passwords are changed to a different md5-encoded string. I plan to change this later.

I know it isn't very user friendly. Also, please don't take any part of this code without my permission. I worked really hard on it. Thanks a bunch.

Please post anything you have to say about this below.

Hi Ced,
I had make the update of counter in the good order (Users, then Threads, and then Forums), and the problem can't comes from this point.
If you say that all is correct for you, i dont understand where the corruption come from in my importation ???
I check more for a mistake in my configuration and i post when i have found something...
Nebula, forget my last post, the mixing problem is in my database or in my brain...sorry !

[Nebula]

Well...I'm somewhat confused ced. Is the problem my script or your database? It sounded like it was the scripts problem, but then I thought you said it was your database's problem. I'm confused. Just let me know if it is my script's problem, or your databases problem. Also, if it is a problem with my script, please send me a copy of your phpBB database, or a link to your phpMyAdmin so I can get it that way. Also, I DO compare the original phpBB and the imported vBulletin side-by-side.

I'm at my grandparents house, so I can't really make an update, as I don't really have any FTP clients or anything, and they don't want me to clutter up their computer.

Be home hopefully tonight or tomorrow night!

Hi Nebula,
CED have a good result with your script and me, JYR i have some mixte...we are 2 differents posters with 2 differents result ! lol

Hi !

first thanks Nebula for enabeling me to go to vBulletin from my old phpBB

I used to make it with one of the first versions of your script.
After some "Find & Replace" on the similies stuff in vi I came accross the difficulty of all links + bbcode stuff...

So I've made a little script of mine to do this using a modified html2bb (found in admin/bbimport.php)

Here the modified I've used to get all these nasty <! BBCodes ... and other into nice vB style codes

Hope this can help some of you.

Now I've a clean forum

[Nebula]

Hmm...that's really good. I was actually thinking of making something like that, just because that function doesn't work well with phpBB code. Thanks a bunch!

Actually, I think I'm gonna make my own code for this, just because that uses a lot of str_replaces. I was thinking about just removing everything in the posts between (< !--)s. Anyways, thanks tho...that has a bunch of good ideas in there. I will base many of my ideas on it.

Thank you bunches tho!!

Glad you like it

The smilies part (beginning of the file) is not correct for phpBB as these guys stored a href to images directely

But someting like :

$htmlcode=eregi_replace("<IMG SRC=\".*smile.gif\" border=\"0\">",":)",$htmlcode);

might do the job pretty well

I converted my phpBB forum fine, but i have a minor problem...
No email has been sent to users :-\
I removed the comment in the converter just before
echo "<p>Users imported sucessfully.</p>";
$action = "mailusers";
$action = "forums";

How can i mass email their passwords to my members?

Another minor problem:
How to remove all useless slash in posts in phpmyadmin ?
like: it\'s me

[Nebula]

Hmm...as to the mass mail not working...if you look at the 2 lines:

PHP Code:

$action = "mailusers";
$action = "forums"; 


You'll notice that the $action = "forums"; is rewriting the $action variable so that it will no longer mail the users, but go to the forums. So remove the $action = "forums"; line. Also, please do not run this version. It is not complete. Do not use it for your final import. The final version you will obtain from JelSoft (hopefully ).

As to the \'slash\' problems...I do not know what is wrong with that. I'll look into it, but I am not sure what you are talking about.

Also, expect a new release very soon that has much improved HTML2BB decoding.

[DarkReaper]

Why don't you edit the first post so it always has the latest version? This would make things much easier for everyone.