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.

Ive got a good database to test that on

The sql dump is about 50 megs.

Ill give it a shot and see how it works.

-Ryan

[JirQUEST]

hmm.... i tried it out after installing vb yesterday.... but my posts are all gone.... only the members are properly imported...

[Nebula]

Retalin: Hope it works out OK

JirQUEST: Are you sure you are using phpBB 1.4.0 at least? Also, do you have some hacks installed on your board?

Its really looking good... its been importing threads for about the last 2 hours. On our private forum there areover 500k posts

Interesting how well it seems to be working. Ill update you when its finished.

-Ryan

Well darn

After i posted that 30 seconds later its finished and now I get this on the 'finalize'


Warning: Cannot add header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/website/vbulliten/importers/bbimport_phpbb.php:2) in /home/website/vbulliten/importers/bbimport_phpbb.php on line 8

Go to the forums and it comes up with the usernames correct for the moderators howerver there is only 1 user, 0 posts, and 0 threads

Oh well.. good script Neb, must just be my forum.

haha boy o boy dont I feel like a toad.

They all imported, only with the date 01-01-1970

LOL

any ideas?

[Nebula]

...your dump?

Give me a location I can download a COMPLETE dump of your phpBB data.

UPDATE: Try updating counters first...since Finalize for some reason or other didn't want to work...

[JirQUEST]

Originally posted by Nebula


JirQUEST: Are you sure you are using phpBB 1.4.0 at least? Also, do you have some hacks installed on your board?

yeah i was using phpbb 1.4.0, and it was modded heavily..... anyway, dun think it could be solved now.... the new board has been up and running for a day and more already (oops).... nevertheless, it managed to get the users imported over (the more impt thing) and i am pretty satisfied. thanks

[Nebula]

sure, glad it worked out (it did, right??). As always, this script will (probably) not work with seriously hacked-up boards, or hacked-up boards for that matter.

Nebula,

Any luck with that DB I sent ya?

-Ryan