Moving part of the database to another forum!

[Malgol]

Hi,
I've created a new forum and would like to transfer the member database and one of the Categories to the new one.
Is this possible in a some what simple way?

What happens if a extract the part from the database that contain topics and members and then just add them to the new one with phpmyadmin?

// Malgol

[Colin]

Does your new forum ready have existing data? If it does then you will have issues.

[Malgol]

Its a small forum for friends and the new one have 2 members and the Forum set up but it doesn't have the Category that i wish to move yet.

[Colin]

Yes, but the way the database works is not what it looks like from the front end. If you don't know what you are doing I would highly suggest not making this transfer to a non-fresh install.

[Malgol]

The thing is that i have tried to make a transfer to a clean install with crazy results, themes not working as they should, paths not working and so on. =/

It all looks so easy if I only look at the part I want in the db.

[Colin]

This might be something you should consider posting in the help wanted board if you want someone to do it for you.

[Malgol]

The problem there is that I don't have the forum on my server anymore and the one that have the server is slow on getting things done and i don't think he will let anyone else in.

So this is all to find useful information on how it is done if possible.

But it seems strange that a simple input in the database would cause so much problems? Does the forum add thing elsewere when i create a topic or member that does it?

[Colin]

To not get into too much detail, members and categories area given a unique ID which then seperate services within SMF reference. If you were to import members and categories from an old forum to a non-fresh install, some UID's may be duplicate, thus screwing everything up.

[Malgol]

hmm... What if i remove all topics or should there be no Boards or categories? Right now there is only one and the "default" welcome topic anyway.

[Colin]

I will be happy to take a look if you are willing to provide some credentials.