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Converthing someboard -> phpBB -> SMF

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packman:
It's not always just a 1->1 or 1->0 though. Take a few examples from the phpBB2 to SMF converter...

1) A many->many example...for avatar conversion, you need conditional conversions (gallery avatars and uploaded avatars) and need to copy files from one set of directories to another completely different structure depending on the type of avatar.

2) A 1->many example...when translating group permissions, a single phpBB permission record often leads to many SMF permission records being created.

3) A many->1 example...groups with access to a board are listed as individual records in phpBB, but are concatenated into a single field in the board table in SMF.

It's difficult to see how a generic converter could cope with such complexities without making the converter very complex to use. It's probably easier to write individual converters than to try to abstract the conversion process enough to write code to convert any/every forum to SMF.

If anyone fancies the challenge I'd love to see what the final code looked like though  ;D

Abedie:
Hmm, there you have a point  :o.
But I thought reading a question about converting while the person had just a dbase left.
Then there won't be avatarfiles to get puzzled throught a converter to put them where they belong and give them a nice logic name like 'Xhdkfleuiuutrmf98374896.gif'.

Hmm, I must put my number of coffeecups higher before I suggest something next time :D.

Greetings,
Abedie.

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--- Quote from: Abedie on September 29, 2004, 07:01:11 PM ---Hmm, there you have a point  :o.
But I thought reading a question about converting while the person had just a dbase left.
Then there won't be avatarfiles to get puzzled throught a converter to put them where they belong and give them a nice logic name like 'Xhdkfleuiuutrmf98374896.gif'.
--- End quote ---

Actually, it's:

id_name_without_dotsmd5


--- Quote ---Hmm, I must put my number of coffeecups higher before I suggest something next time :D.
--- End quote ---

Not that it was a bad suggestion at all.

-[Unknown]

packman:
If someone just has part of a phpBB installation left, it shouldn't be a huge job to tweak the converter to convert just the data that was available. The few bits of info required from the old phpBB config file could be hard coded in (or a dummy phpBB config file created) and then any steps converting data that isn't required could just be bypassed by making minor mods to the code. It would need some PHP experience, but not a lot and it should be possible to document how to do this for people with no PHP experience.

As this question has come up a couple of times, I'll have a think about this when I get a bit of spare time (could be next week now).

Abedie:
Good idea.

In my experience as an admin from two big support forums from a provider (closed 2 months ago) for two years, I have learned that most customers think of making a backup of the dbases, but not so often think of making a backup from their site. We got some cases of defacing and worse.
As it unfortunatly sometimes happens things go realy wrong with a site, its also good to have such an option as you discribed at hand, if one decided at such a crisis (happens to me ;) ) to switch over to a real safe forum. Better late then never.
I have started to work with Ikonboard, YaBB and some other boards, and I know where I'm talking about when I say that I think SMF is the best free available board, so its logic when people drops in with just a dbase and some db details to find their resque.

Greetings,
Abedie.

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