Simpleboard to SMF 1.0.x Conversion Script

[turkbee]

I can not understand.
I uploaded jsimpleboard_to_smf.php to mambo directory
I moved mambo configuration file to smf directory then chmoded to 777
I gave both path to smf folder's path
I entered smf database password same as in settings.php

But I'm still getting error;
"Sorry, the database connection information used in the specified installation of SMF cannot access the installation of Mambo - Simpleboard....."....

[jeff41]

I've installed SMF with my Joomla site and I successfully integrated the two and also successfully converted from joomlaboard to smf.

My problem now is my Users Online isn't displaying the members when they logon (USING FIREFOX ONLY) in the forum at the bottom of the page.  It just shows us all as guests.  I ran all the forum maintenance links and everything else is fine.  If you login with Internet Explorer it works.  Can you help me?

Thanks,
Jeff

[Kirby]

I've installed SMF with my Joomla site and I successfully integrated the two and also successfully converted from joomlaboard to smf.

My problem now is my Users Online isn't displaying the members when they logon (USING FIREFOX ONLY) in the forum at the bottom of the page.  It just shows us all as guests.  I ran all the forum maintenance links and everything else is fine.  If you login with Internet Explorer it works.  Can you help me?

Thanks,
Jeff

It could be a theme or mod issue, it shouldnt be a conversion issue.

I can not understand.
I uploaded jsimpleboard_to_smf.php to mambo directory
I moved mambo configuration file to smf directory then chmoded to 777
I gave both path to smf folder's path
I entered smf database password same as in settings.php

But I'm still getting error;
"Sorry, the database connection information used in the specified installation of SMF cannot access the installation of Mambo - Simpleboard....."....

I do not know what is causing this anymore. Maybe I can take a look.

[gsbe]

Thanks for posting this jsimpleboard_to_smf.php file. We converted a board with 5 forums, 180 topics and 500 replies. The only errors generated were related to 3 attachments (2 images and one .zip file).

Cheers!

[Kirby]

Glad to see that it worked

[Jelte]

My members are not converted... Using SMF 1.0.5, Joomla 1.0.6. Is there a way to manually convert the members?

[:MrClean:]

ı'recieving error message while i'm trying to convert mambo to smf. error message is below;

Sorry, the database connection information used in the specified installation of SMF cannot access the installation of Mambo - Simpleboard. This may either mean that the installation doesn't exist, or that the MySQL account used does not have permissions to access it.

I'm having the same problem. I think I know why, but I don't know much about programming to fix it.  From browsing through the conversion script I "think" that the script assumes that the same user name and password for SMF can be used on the Joomla database.  This isn't true for me, but it could be an easy fix seeings how the username and password for the Joomla database are in the configuration.php as $mosConfig_user and $mosConfig_password respectively.  It's very likely that I'm wrong, but I thought I would try to help. Hopefully you can give it a shot.. Thanks!

[Severe]

The script is great and works (all messages and users get imported) but the problem I'm having is that the userrights don't get copied (i.e.: Administrator is just a normal user and cannot do administrative tasks. There is no admin button so to say)

Using: joomla 1.0.8 and SMF 1.1RC2 (copied from joomlaboard 1.1.2)

Thanks for reading

[wb]

very nice, worked on the first try, thanks a bunch!

[Lamer_Astral]

Anyone know where I can get my hands on this script? Dowloading the attatchment doesent seams to work

[darkchild]

Many thanks for the wonderful convertor. I have just converted from simpleboard 1.1 to smf. Everything went well except for the users. Is there are another way of importing users from joomla 1.0.8 to smf 1.1RC2 (?

Just in case anyone is interested here is the result that i got:

Converting...
Converting members... successful.
Converting categories... successful.
Converting boards... successful.
Converting topics... successful.
Converting messages... (this may take some time) successful.
Converting topic notifications... successful.
Converting board access... successful.
Converting smileys... successful.
Converting attachments... successful.
Recalculating forum statistics...
Warning: mysql_fetch_assoc(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/zim/public_html/talk/jsimpleboard_to_smf.php on line 1201

Warning: mysql_free_result(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/zim/public_html/talk/jsimpleboard_to_smf.php on line 1206
successful.

[Mavke]

I have used the simpleboard_to_smf.php and jsimpleboard_to_smf.php scripts to convert from Simpleboard to SMF but I am stuck at the coversion of the members. I am using Mambo 4.5 (1.0.9) and Simpleboard 1.1.0 to go to SMF 1.1 RC2. All works except the members conversion, so I have all posts, threads, categories but no users on SMF... So it is quite useless. Who can help on this as I have quite an extensive site to convert.

[scrax]

i can't download the file, when i do it i've a file of 0 bit...

[pcjunkie]

Forgive me if this is real easy to fix but I keep getting this evry time I try the script.

Using Joomla 1.10 and Joomla board 1.1.2..




Fatal error: Call to undefined function create_button() in D:\Program Files\wamp\www\smf\Sources\Load.php(1040) : eval()'d code on line 238

NM It was the template!

[jmedina]

I try to run this thing and I get a blank screen. No error no anything I am running it from a firefox browser.

hxxp:www.warzoneministries.com/forum/jsimpleboard_to_smf.php [nonactive]

Any Ideas?

[Moonray]

If anyone has problems converting simpleboard/ joomlaboard to SMF, contact me by PM.

[pcjunkie]

I have only Just noticed, but the user name and the display name are back to front.....

IE user registers as

User name John
Display name is Killer

Now I have user name as Killer,
Display Name as John...

In Joomla it's the correct way around, So now that is done with, How do I change that in SMF...

I can't find anywhere in the settings that switches what is displayed......

I can change that in the bridge but it does nothing to what is displayed in SMF post registration...

I can't beleive there is no tab for what gets displayed in Admin....

[spiros]

I tried it and now not only boards appear as ?? (had a UTF Joomla + Forum) but I also cannot log in. I got this error:

Converting members... Successful.
Converting categories... Successful.
Converting boards... Successful.
Converting topics... Successful.
Converting posts (this may take some time)... Unsuccessful!
This query:

INSERT INTO `free_joomla`.smf_messages
(ID_MSG, ID_TOPIC, posterTime, SUBSTRING(m.subject, 1, 255), ID_MEMBER, posterName, posterEmail, posterIP, ID_BOARD, body, modifiedName, icon)
VALUES ('9', '9', '1138761649', '?? ? ?', '0', 'gademis', '[email protected]', '212.251.110.216', '2', '??[img width=][img width=]?[img width=]??[img width=][img width=]??[img width=]?[img width=][img width=]?[img width=][img width=]??[img width=][img width=]??[img width=]??;[img width=]??[img width=]??[img width=]?[img width=]?[img width=][img width=]?[img width=][img width=]??[img width=]??[img width=]??[img width=]??[img wid

..........


Caused the error:

    You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'SUBSTRING(m.subject, 1, 255), ID_MEMBER, posterName, posterEmail, posterIP, ID_B' at line 2

[happy_noodle_boy]

Anybody got a fix for this error?

[locutusweb]

Got the same error as the messages above, tried the script in this tread and conversion went fine 

But where did my administrator go? for mambo and the "test" setup of smf i used the same login and password.....

Edit:

Somehow it works again....