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does anyone know what kind of forum software this site is on?

Started by DAB Empire, December 09, 2008, 07:01:41 AM

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DAB Empire

I will be porting a site over from a 3rd party hosted form to an independent SMF version.  I don't know if this is a custom forum software, or if anyone can recognize what it is run off.  Just curious to see if I could find a converter, or if I need to bring in a programmer.

The hosted forums come from websitetoolbox.com.  An example of the forum is here.

ThorstenE

sounds like a custom forum from websitetoolbox:
http://www.websitetoolbox.com/message_board/pricing.html

don't know anything about this software, but when the data is stored in a MySQL database and you can access this database a converter maybe possible..

nneonneo

To a slightly lesser extent, even if it is not stored in a database, conversion is possible with a crawler (though these take much more work to get right)
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DAB Empire

No.  We're still looking into options.  If you have any ideas to get us ported to SMF that'd be great.

ThorstenE

Quote from: TE on December 09, 2008, 07:34:14 AM
...when the data is stored in a MySQL database and you can access this database a converter maybe possible..

DAB Empire, do you have access to the database?

DAB Empire

Yes and no.  Not readily available, but we can pay a crap load (few hundred) for a dump of it.  So, we only want to do it once.

ThorstenE

DAB Empire, sorry but without a database dump it's impossible for us to write a converter. I don't know anything about the database structure. Maybe nneonneo can write a crawler for this software...
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=188741.0

DAB Empire


ThorstenE

ok, can you upload the dump to a webserver and PM me a link to this file? I will check it then. Maybe it's possible to write a converter.

matstone

I am also curious about this, has anyone made any progress?  ???

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