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SMF Support => Converting to SMF => vBulletin => Topic started by: marazmus on January 16, 2010, 03:34:08 AM

Title: SMF 2 + SMF 2 - how?
Post by: marazmus on January 16, 2010, 03:34:08 AM
Hello. How can I "merge" two SMF2 forums into one? Any converter maybe? Thank you.
Title: Re: SMF 2 + SMF 2 - how?
Post by: ThorstenE on January 17, 2010, 03:05:02 AM
sorry, but currently there is no merging script available for SMF 2 (which is still under developement). This is something on my to-do list for the next weeks but for now, I'm sorry..
Title: Re: SMF 2 + SMF 2 - how?
Post by: marazmus on January 17, 2010, 03:15:04 AM
Okay, thank you in any case :)
Title: Re: SMF 2 + SMF 2 - how?
Post by: nivlac on March 04, 2010, 11:45:33 PM
TE,

I'm checking to see if you have made any progress on your merging script for SMF 2.

Thanks...
Title: Re: SMF 2 + SMF 2 - how?
Post by: aED on April 05, 2010, 03:28:46 PM
I have a merging script for SMF  which I used for a client of mine. It is already working but it has no interface yet so I still need to work on that before I share it here :)
Title: Re: SMF 2 + SMF 2 - how?
Post by: nivlac on April 05, 2010, 03:32:11 PM
Okay, thanks. I ended up doing a manual merge in phpMyAdmin and only lost a few posts out all, so I didn't do as bad as I feared I would. But, I look forward to your merge mod as it would make it so much easier.
Title: Re: SMF 2 + SMF 2 - how?
Post by: aED on April 05, 2010, 09:28:34 PM
I wonder how  you managed to merge it using PMA as I know the ids would conflict to the other database :)
Title: Re: SMF 2 + SMF 2 - how?
Post by: Mr. Doug on April 05, 2010, 09:33:00 PM

Here's how I did it today.

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=363021.msg2570694#msg2570694
Title: Re: SMF 2 + SMF 2 - how?
Post by: nivlac on April 05, 2010, 10:33:54 PM
Actually, I didn't give you the whole story with my forum. I had already upgraded from 1.1.11 to 2.0 RC2 but then couldn't go live as the old version was using a registration password mod which effectively screened non-alumni from joining because we only gave the password out to alumni that wanted to join and changed it weekly. That particular mod had basically become abandoned and I found someone that was willing to code a new one.

In the mean time, the old forum kept growing and the upgraded one had some stuff added by the owner/admin, even though I asked her not to add anything. My delima was I had two 2.0 RC2 versions that were identical up to a certain date and then the database diverged.

I think I used INSERT IGNORE. I'm not too good at remembering sql commands but it was one added the rows that were different and ignored the ones that were the same. So I only lost the ones that had identical ID, which turned out to be less than ten in the whole database. Of course I did this in a duplicate forum and once I was sure I didn't loose too much I moved the old forum and copied the duplicate to the old folder and used repair_settings.php to update the paths.
Title: Re: SMF 2 + SMF 2 - how?
Post by: bhathiya9999 on April 06, 2010, 03:01:46 PM
Still it is under construction means we can take it in few days then SMF -2 can connect

Title: Re: SMF 2 + SMF 2 - how?
Post by: Liam. on April 12, 2010, 08:23:42 PM
Even if it takes months, I'm looking forward to this/these merging mods ;)
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