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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.

[TheCaver]

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

Neb, GREAT script. It all worked except for this detail.
I'm not an advanced programmer, but I would suspect that this can be fixed by another string replace ?

Basically, it's leaving the slash escape character in the new posts.

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

Thanks for an awesome script!

JC

[Nebula]

I'll get on it right now. Expect a new release as soon as I restore all my phpBBconv stuff (I had to re-format my computer (too much surfing to strange sites sometimes gets you viruses)).

[Nebula]

Here's a new release everyone! If I do say so myself, it has a GREAT new feature. It is a HTML2BB function modified so that it works 100% with phpBB 1.4.0. I've tested it myself, and so you shouldn't see any phpBB BBCode left over. It should be all converted into vBCode (hopefully).

Also, I have not been able to reproduce the error with the \'s. I am thinking it may be something with your database. If you have this error, send me ONE of these:

• Your Database
• A Link to phpMyAdmin that has access to the phpBB Database and the vBulletin Database

Please don't post them to the forums here, rather email me.

Thanks a bunch. This version also has some optimizations to it where I turned "s into 's because of something I read in a PHP book. If you use echo "Lala!";, it checks if it has any variables or special stuff in there, where as if you do echo "Lala!";, it does not check for anything. So that should speed it up remotely.

Please test this version. We are very near FINAL!

[qasic]

Regarding that las comment,you're talking about string interpolation right? Where stuff inside double quotes is checked for varaibles and while stuff inside single quotes is not. Anyways, the speed increase for that is extremely minimal but I guess you need to pull out every ounce of speed possible

qasic

[Nebula]

Well...if that's what it's called then...yes. And also, I do want to get every ounce of speed out of this, because otherwise the script may timeout, and leave you with a semi-corrupt database. And...if the database is corrupted, that's not good. And besides, if it's a millisecond faster, nobody will notice, or care.

Well...as of this post...0 people have downloaded the newest version...that's not good...get testing, this is a quite important release.

[TheCaver]

I'm waiting on the verdict for the slash thing

I know your script works cause if it worked on my UBB->phpBB->vB then it HAS to work for everyone else

Besides, 900 users and 28,000 posts takes awhile to convert

JC

[Nebula]

Since some people are waiting to see what is up with the slash thing, I have no clue what's causing it. I need people to run the most recent version, and test that. Please use that script to generate a vBulletin database, and then tell me if you are affected, and if you are, send me a link to your vBulletin database (using phpMyAdmin), or an actual copy of the converted vBulletin database.

Also, I am working on a version that fixes some problems (not bugs) in the new html2vBCode routine. If any BBCode is not being converted, I know. Just focus on the slashes please. Thank you.

This script is almost done. Please don't let me loose all my testers.

[TheCaver]

Thanks Neb, I'll run it again right now and should have something to you shortly......

JC

[TheCaver]

I think I might have figured out the slash problem.

If you look in the DB, some ' characters are escaped with one slash while others are escaped with 3.

I'm gonna remove the extras with a find/replace and try it.....

JC

[TheCaver]

Nope, this one locked up on a post.......did not get to test my slash theory.

What now?

JC