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Same directories for conversion?
IchBin™:
hmm... yeah it should definitely take a little longer than just a second or two. I'd say it didn't complete properly. Let us know how you get along.
BinkyM:
Hi, Brad:
Yeah, I woke up today to discover that nothing had happened overnight. The last message I showed you is still on the screen, and when I check the SMF database, nothing's been added.
(And just to be doubly sure, I checked my boardinfo.cgi for a prefix, and nothing's entered there. I knew this anyway because Ikonboard was my first SQL database ever in 2005, and my very next one and all databases afterwards wanted prefixes, and I wondered why my Ikonboard hadn't required one.)
Kay; I'm in the SMF forums now, hoping for a single message to have been transferred by the converter, but no love.
Gonna run it again, but am suddenly struck by the ambiguity of one of the parameters: it's "Path to the uploads directory." I've been assuming it wants the path to the Ikonboards directory (since that one has data in it); could it be asking about the SMF directory (because it wants to put data there)?
Oh. Am looking at the error log right now and see that there's a plethora of errors:
--- Code: ---[23-Apr-2012 11:28:20] PHP Notice: Undefined index: convert_script in /home2/luckybin/path_to/my_forum/convert.php on line 972
[23-Apr-2012 11:28:20] PHP Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home2/luckybin/path_to/my_forum/convert.php on line 975
[23-Apr-2012 11:28:20] PHP Notice: Undefined index: convert_script in /home2/luckybin/path_to/my_forum/convert.php on line 987
[23-Apr-2012 11:28:20] PHP Notice: Undefined variable: result in /home2/luckybin/path_to/my_forum/convert.php on line 2494
[23-Apr-2012 11:28:20] PHP Notice: Undefined index: db_fetch_assoc in /home2/luckybin/path_to/my_forum/convert.php on line 1386
[23-Apr-2012 11:28:20] PHP Fatal error: Function name must be a string in /home2/luckybin/path_to/my_forum/convert.php on line 1386
[23-Apr-2012 11:28:26] PHP Notice: Undefined index: convert_script in /home2/luckybin/path_to/my_forum/convert.php on line 972
[23-Apr-2012 11:28:26] PHP Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home2/luckybin/path_to/my_forum/convert.php on line 975
[23-Apr-2012 11:28:26] PHP Notice: Undefined index: convert_script in /home2/luckybin/path_to/my_forum/convert.php on line 987
[23-Apr-2012 11:28:26] PHP Notice: Undefined variable: result in /home2/luckybin/path_to/my_forum/convert.php on line 2494
[23-Apr-2012 11:28:26] PHP Notice: Undefined index: db_fetch_assoc in /home2/luckybin/path_to/my_forum/convert.php on line 1386
[23-Apr-2012 11:28:26] PHP Fatal error: Function name must be a string in /home2/luckybin/path_to/my_forum/convert.php on line 1386
--- End code ---
Well, phooey; I'm not gonna debug all *that*. (sigh)
I'm gonna try to run it again.
Oh, *this* is interesting:
Converting...
Converting members...Wrong value type sent to the database. Integer expected. (last_login)
At least it tried this time. But boy, is it ever inconsistent!
I'm not to the hair-pulling stage yet! Can you help me get there, Brad?
Binky
IchBin™:
I'm sure the path for uploads is the ikonboard path. The script should already know where SMF's stuff is, since it is wrote to convert things into SMF. :)
My guess is that you ran it right this last time. With you getting the wrong value error that means it was actually processing data! :) Although, I'm not sure what the problem is right now. I'll have a look at the script and see if I can tell what's wrong.
ETA: Try the attached file and let me know if you get along any further. If you get further, please post which part is converting ie. (Converting Members...) and what the error is. Thx.
BinkyM:
Oh, Bad:
Sad Binky is sad. Not only is my single member gone from my SMF database (the member I test with), but I just attempted to recreate him by reregistering him and upon completion of all the fields got the message:
An Error Has Occurred!
The database value you're trying to insert does not exist: value
Those are the best messages, of course, the ones that make me wanna whip up a martini at 4PM.
Good thing I attempted to do a little housekeeping just now, because I was about to invite the staff from my Ikonboard forums to come make a whole pile of trouble in the SMF forums, to play like monkeys, try to break something before the forums go live once I get the data moved over. Course, at this rate, I won't *have* any data to move over, or any data in the destination forums!
(Yes, I understood that the old data was gonna overwrite the new, fake data, but since nothing ever happened with the conversion, I assumed my pretend data would still be safe, and in fact my messages are intact, and I most certainly assumed I'd be able to make NEW fake data!)
I can haz gin now?
Oh, wait: let's go see what the error log says.
That's no help; it's empty.
Well, I'm off to enter ol' Gordon Freeman by hand. I spose he won't be linked to his forum messages now, but he can make loads of new meaningless messages anyway.
Binky
IchBin™:
Yeah that's one of the things I do while testing conversions. I keep a copy of my fresh new SMF database to restore so I can start the conversion over. :) You can have the gin, I'll take the cherry coke! :D If you continue to run into problems, would you like me to try to run the conversion? I'd need a copy of your database to test things on. Please don't post it on the forum though. If it's under 10MB when it's zipped up, you can send it to my email.
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