Impex Assistance on migrating from phpBB

[ewelin]

Hello,

I'm currently in the middle of migrating a major client's site from a heavily modded phpBB2 forum to vB. Now impex works great and imports all of the default data, but I'm looking to expand that. I've already customized the user import to include custom profile fields I added in phpBB2. But the biggest thing I'd like to do is keep the forum hierarchy.

I have a subforum MOD on my phpBB forum which added a "forum_parent" field to the phpbb_forums table. I'm hoping to be able to use this information in the import so that I do not have to manually resort all of the forums in vB. Looking at file 000.php line 646 it looks like all fields of the phpbb_forums table is available (yes i'm running mysql). I then found that in file 006.php around line 170 is where the forums are imported into vb. I'm just unsure how to provide this "forum_parent" value so that it can give the imported forums the correct parent ids.

Any assistance would be greatly welcomed!

What you require have to be requested at the official forum on vbulletin.com, where Jerry may hear your request... He is the only one who is able to manage the ImpEx engine.

we are all facing that situation where our forums are not located at the right place, and where the permissions for new usergroups are not set... this is one of the problem when importing boards...

[ewelin]

I did ask over there.... but he didn't seem to get my request. I'm just looking for coding assistance to get the forums sorted correctly upon import. The site I'm importing has almost 150 forums with less than 20 being in the upper most level. I image that other forum scripts that have subforums be default are imported correctly. I'm just looking to for guidance on what command I'll need to use to complete the import process so all 150 are not upper level forums.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

In 006.php, in the function resume(), you will find a few occurnces of the following line (or similar):

PHP Code:

    $try->set_value('mandatory', 'parentid',   '-1'); 


You will need to replace '-1' with $forum['forum_parent']. But you will need to be carefull, not every place where 'parentid' is set needs to be updated. Some placves handle categories and will most likely don't need changing. I can't give you exact intructions without test data.