Are there any plans to upgrade the e107 converter to v0.7
I need to import like 30.000 forums post from my e107 forum.
Also any way to avoid the conversion script to timeout...?

Quote from: JayBachatero on May 10, 2006, 03:15:50 PM

Quote from: astrolabos on May 09, 2006, 03:28:56 PM
Can I convert the forum again after 15 days?

Yeah but your data on the SMF forum will be overwritten.

Well. that's not an option, so I have to stay with the ipb garbage on the post. Is there a possibility to perform an sql query to delete that junk? like select * from table where junk ? like a find and replace command?

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Quote from: Leipe Po on May 09, 2006, 03:30:38 PM
doesnt seem to be stripping slashes....

Leipe is just the style that smileys are added in IPB.  It is very confusing.
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they like it that way i geuss, that why ill allways stick to open-source 

I use:
convert.php
invision2_to_smf.php
invision2_to_smf.sql

Got:
Recalculating forum statistics... Unsuccessful!
This query:

    UPDATE `evil`.smf_boards
    SET ID_LAST_MSG = 17762, lastUpdated = 1146876935
    WHERE ID_BOARD = 1
    LIMIT 1;

Caused the error:

    Unknown column 'lastUpdated' in 'field list'

IPB 2.0.3
smf 1.1 RC2

Just to confirm... this beta converter, coverts PHPBB 2.0.17 to SMF1.1RC2  ?

FYI, in case anyone else is running with file extensions .html instead of .php. Below are the  errors you get if convert.php doesn't find config.php in the phpBB directory. To fix it I just copied config.html to config.php and convert was happy.

QuoteSorry, the database connection information used in the specified installation of SMF cannot access the installation of phpBB2. This may either mean that the installation doesn't exist, or that the MySQL account used does not have permissions to access it. The problem could be avoided if convert.php looked at phpBB's extensions.inc [nofollow].

The error MySQL gave was: No Database Selected

QuoteNotice: Undefined variable: dbname in /home/mbiwebor/public_html/smf/convert.php(661) : eval()'d code on line 1

Notice: Undefined variable: table_prefix in /home/mbiwebor/public_html/smf/convert.php(661) : eval()'d code on line 1

Hi to every here:
I'm very newbie with SMF. I have installed and working fine a vBulletin 3.5.4 version. Now I need to transfer my old post, threads and users from vB to SMF. I found this topic but here the creator not explain how use the converter. I know that's beta right now, and have a .sql backup before. So ... if any can help me I'll be grateful for that.

I need dowload some from this other topic: http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=38966.0 or I just only need the two files at the start?

Regards,

Download the two files in this topic the convert.php and the .sql file and then upload them both to your SMF dir.  Run convert.php and fill in the fields.

Thanks a lot, now I have my SMF Board working and with all of the post, topics and users saved. I have only one question and not know if this is the right topic, but ... the CP say to me that I have 4 private messages but I can't view them. It's a bug for converter or ...

Regards,

Admin > Forum Maintenance > Recount.

The UseBB to SMF conversion was said to be a beta somewhere, so I just wanted to post a note saying that I had only one issue with a full working forum, and that was with the moderators.  I ended up deleting them entirely, which was no big deal with the forum.  Otherwise it worked great, thank you.

Did it delete their accounts or what?  Remember that there is Global Moderators and Moderators.  Moderators are board specific.

Ah, my bad..I shouldn't post that late in the morning.   I kept getting an error during the conversion telling me there were duplicate board-specific moderators.  I tried deleting the entries by hand in the useBB table but they would reappear and I would get the same issue when I restarted the converter.  I eventually deleted the table and the converter was able to finish.  I went into the SMF ACP and added the board moderators afterwards.

Hi there

For me everything went succesful only that when I went and opened the posts they all have VISIBLE tags, i.e: HTML tags are all visible why is that ?

Cheers
TheRoot

Regular users cant use html tags.

I converted from IPB 2.1.2 to 1.1RC2, but I've hit three(+1) specific snags.

During conversion, I get a load of "Notice: Undefined index: 28 in /home/x/public_html/soapbox/convert.php(1627) : eval()'d code on line 11"-like errors (about 30 of them). And don't tell me to re-upload it, because I've done so many times, and the same thing happens again and again (and I even tried manually setting it to ASCII, and using a different FTP client).

It does continue on, however, with some small problems AFTER conversion.

1) I've got two forums that will NOT get a post total on the main page. I've run the maintenance "recount all" blah blah 3 times now, and nothing changes. I tried posting a new message to force SMF to recount it, but that also did nothing. 0 posts and 0 replies.

2) All my smileys are like the following:

[img src=\"style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/wink.gif\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\" emoid=\";)\" border=\"0\" alt=\"wink.gif\" /]

While the converter says it's converted smileys succesfully. What gives? 

edit:

Another minor snag. All my polls are farked. But I assume that's because of snag 1.

I think the "undefined index" errors are poll-related. I tested the converter with data from an IPB 2.1.5 installation (I think), and the polls converted fine, but some people have reported issues with that, so I really don't know what the problem is there.

I also have not been able to get smileys working. I spent several weeks trying to get the correct syntax to match that stupid string, and I thought I finally had it. I guess not.

Just tried running the convert script but i get this error:

Sorry, the database connection information used in the specified installation of SMF cannot access the installation of vBulletin 3.5. This may either mean that the installation doesn't exist, or that the MySQL account used does not have permissions to access it.

The error MySQL gave was: SELECT command denied to user 'ukecarp_smf1'@'localhost' for table 'vb3_user'


any ideas would be great, im converting from vb 3.4.3 to smf 1.1rc2

Make sure that the SMF database user has access to the vB database.  If you have cPanel add the SMF user to the vB database.

Thanks for you quick reply much appreciated,

Allthough im affraid im another newbie to cpanel, how exactly do i do this?

Very much appreciated.