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SMF Support => Converting to SMF => YaBB/YaBB SE => Topic started by: avf on June 03, 2008, 12:02:15 PM

Title: Yabb 2.1 to SMF 1.15 ...smooth sailing
Post by: avf on June 03, 2008, 12:02:15 PM
Hi All,
Finally discovered SMF and upgraded my Yabb 2.1 board with the converter.
To say it was a very smooth sailing with the webinstall and converter would be very true. I have a functional board very fast.  Thanks SMF

My small queries are

I have some custom fields in the profile of the users like age, phone etc in Yabb. In the import I see  they have been missing in the profile fields of SMF display. Also in some profiles i can see location, age in others i dont see them. Some fields are totally absent like the phone number.

I have also modded SMF to add custom profile fields however now if i add them to the profile display i get 2 locations one from the new mod and other from the earlier import.

Is there some way i can display the earlier profile custom fields from YABB to SMF ?
Also the SMF custom field mod is not the refined as it does not have options for numeric or drop down options ... what can be done ?
Thanks
AVF
sample SMF : http://www.indiarc.com/forum/index.php?action=profile
YABB : http://www.indiarc.com/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl?action=viewprofile;username=bingo


Thanks
Title: Re: Yabb 2.1 to SMF 1.15 ...smooth sailing
Post by: SleePy on June 03, 2008, 08:47:55 PM
Since custom profile fields is a mod in SMF 1.1 it isn't copied over.

You are welcome to modify the .php file as needed though to convert the data :)
Title: Re: Yabb 2.1 to SMF 1.15 ...smooth sailing
Post by: avf on June 14, 2008, 12:44:56 PM
thanks could you tell me how and which files pls
cheers
Title: Re: Yabb 2.1 to SMF 1.15 ...smooth sailing
Post by: avf on June 17, 2008, 04:47:54 AM
Anybody who can guide on this pls ?
Title: Re: Yabb 2.1 to SMF 1.15 ...smooth sailing
Post by: SleePy on June 17, 2008, 01:32:06 PM
SMF does not provide support for converting of 3rd party mods to SMF (or 3rd party SMF mods).
The reason for this is the possibility of many different mods could mean different ways of this being done.

The source code is there and would just need some time to match things up and test it.
Title: Re: Yabb 2.1 to SMF 1.15 ...smooth sailing
Post by: avf on June 18, 2008, 04:00:45 AM
Thanks for that but being a non techie I couldn't manage that without help.
Could you guide me a bit on the coding part
AVF
Title: Re: Yabb 2.1 to SMF 1.15 ...smooth sailing
Post by: Rumbaar on July 03, 2008, 06:06:04 AM
Well there is no need to add the location field again via the Custom Profile mod.  Just use the current default field.

Now for the other fields, the most viable option I think is to add the 'old' custom fields and get your users to re-populate those field.  I know it's not ideal, but I think it's your only option at the moment.

PS: The links supplied aren't valid URL's for us.