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Converter from IPB to SMF?
Grudge:
Hi there!
To convert your board you first do a clean installation of SMF and get that working. You then upload the converter to the root directory of your SMF installation and run it - and that is it :)
One important point though is if the database for IPB and SMF are *different* the user who has access to SMF will also need access to the IPB database for the conversion. The converter does not affect the IPB database so you should have nothing to fear.
There is a known bug in the converter that will be fixed in the next release in that it will mess up your moderators and not handle sub boards very well. Other than that it should work fine!
lerdo:
Hey, Grudge. :) Thanks for your advice; it worked like a charm. As you warned me, the moderator info got screwed up, but that was easy enough to fix. All in all, the conversion was a piece of cake.
Thanks again,
L.
[Unknown]:
Merging is really not at all a simple task.
-[Unknown]
Oldiesmann:
--- Quote from: jcompton on May 07, 2004, 11:13:18 AM ---What would be involved if I have an existing SMF install but I wanted to merge in posts from an Invision board?
--- End quote ---
It could be done, but as [Unknown] mentioned, it would not be easy. The only way I could think of doing it would be to set up another SMF install in a seperate place on that server, then go convert your IPB to this seperate SMF. After that, you'd have to go in and manually transfer all the information from the tables used by the new SMF install to the tables used by the current one, changing message IDs when necessary to avoid conflicting with current SMF messages. Then you'd have to go in and recount all the forum statistics, and finally move any posts around to suit your needs. Depending on the size of your IPB, this could take several hours, and would be a long tedious process.
Hunter2:
Is this convertor available?
Need this myself.
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