Version: , by Nebula
Developer Last Online: Dec 2009
Version: 2.2.x
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Released: 06-22-2001
Last Update: Never
Installs: 143
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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.
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That one is still kinda in its beta phase, but it's more off to RC stage. There might be a few bugs in it, but I've removed all that I've been told of or found myself. I hope to finish it soon
I've never thought about it, and I think it wouldn't be that easy...because all the userIDs and the forumIDs and threadIDs and postIDs and so on would have to be changed...and that would be VERY server intensive. I guess I could do it...but I don't really think anyone would want to...
The idea of this script is to convert a phpBB Bulletin Board's database into a vBulletin database. It is not supposed to append onto the vBulletin. The idea is that you just bought a new copy of vBulletin, and want to move from phpBB to vB...not to start something on vBulletin for a month, and then append onto it.
If anyone else would like to have merging support, I will do it. Just post here if you'd like this to support merging. Also, please everyone download and test. I got lots of help the first time around, and now it is (99.99%) finished, and barely anyone is helping to test it. Please guys...I'd appreciate it.
I am EXTREMELY interested in the merge support and know there are alot of people out there that would want the merging feature.
I'm sorry, but this one does not have merging support, and I don't think I will code it for this one. I do reccomend you upgrade to phpBB2, as I have made an importer that does support merging. The link to it is in the "hacks -> import scripts" section.
Sorry, but even the phpBB crew reccomends you upgrade to phpBB2, and I must agree, phpBB2 is much cleaner and more efficient than phpBB 1.x.
there's not much I can do, if your host isn't replying. Sorry, but besides you sending me the database file (probably very large), there's not much I can do. And I'm not sure if I'm able to manually convert databases...I've been very busy lately. sorry.
I reccomend you try to get in contact with some of your host's other customers. I'd also consider getting a new host
To anyone wanting to run the import scripts..where host doesn't allow same names:
I had the same problem...but I found a solution. In my vb database, I restored my lastest invision board backup. Now my db had all the vb tables and the ipb tables. I then ran the importer..pointing it to my db...and all files were imported correctly and completely.
When done...be sure to drop all tables from old db.
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04-24-2002, 10:22 AM
