Invision Power Board 1.1 Importer needs testing

The importer is now available in the Members Area at

http://www.vbulletin.com/members/imports.html
or
http://www.vbulletin-germany.com/members/imports.html

I have heard all the requests for an Invision Power Board 1.1/1.2 import script and now it is done (I hope).
It is possible that it could work with all vB 2.2.x versions but I have tested it only with vB 2.2.9+. I don't know how much bbimport.php changed over the versions and if it will work with older ones.

It imports users, custom avatars, usergroups, buddys, categories, forums, threads, posts, attachments, polls, private messages, private message folders, subscribed forums and subscribed threads.

To make it easy to use it is written as a plugin like all the other official importers.


Requirements: vBulletin and IPB 1.1/1.2 on the same MySQL server. It doesn't matter if they are in the same or in different databases (but different databases need the same MySQL user/pass).


Sucsessful imported IPBs
http://www.aximsite.com/boards


01/30/03 imports usergroups

[Peter204]

PM sent

Thanks for the great contribution!

[Peter204]

Worked great!

[Da`Nacho]

I have sent an email requesting this script... hope to have it in my hands soon so I can convert my forums back to vBulletin.

[hockyfan]

Originally posted by Da`Nacho
I have sent an email requesting this script... hope to have it in my hands soon so I can convert my forums back to vBulletin.

Sent an email as well via the link in the first post; no response as of yet...


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[nissanpower]

pogo, can you please send me the importer script to webmaster@nissanpower.net? Thank you!!!!

[kyzen]

Hey pogo, just got vBul, upgrading from invision, will test it out,
but I have vBul 2.3.0 hope it work

[kyzen]

can you email it to me again mate? the rar you send me was corrupt! Thanks Champ, kenny@ncable.net.au

[crowfield99]

How can I download this hack? I cant sem to download it and yes I am a valid VBulletin Member.

[Da`Nacho]

I got the script from pogo, I ended up hunting him down on the vBulletin-Germany forums though.

It's definately a rough script. but it worked and I got all the posts and users converted.

Those of you who do get the script should watch out for:

• usergroups are converted, but instead of putting admin, moderator, super moderator, registered, etc in the existing vBulletin usergroups the script seems to make all new usergroups with similar names, and then imports all the users adding them to these new usergroups. It's not a big deal really, if you are versed in MySQL you can fix this with a few commands.
• My account was imported to the forum and instead of replacing userid 1 it was given userid 2, which makes me the second user in the database and as such some admin functions in vB are visible to userid 1. Again, this was easily fixed with some MySQL commands meant to search and replace userids.
• Forum options and permissions are not converted, or are converted poorly.

There were some other issues but they were minor, and all in all I am extremely grateful for the converter pogo wrote. CandidForums are now back on Vbulletin, where they belong.

[crowfield99]

Thank you very much for that, I didn't know you could not download it from here!

Thanks again