convert from Lussumo Vanilla

fatty · June 04, 2007, 05:46:13 AM

I'd be interested in a converter too. It looks simple on the outside but the load on my server tells another story!

fatty · June 10, 2007, 12:19:10 AM

Any news on the progress on this converter? I'm only asking as I understand as the developers are very busy people that these things can take time. If it's going to be a while in the making I'll build a dodgy script to try and do it for me.

KGIII · June 10, 2007, 02:37:56 AM

I am re-visiting this topic. I am not capable. However... Oldies is, well, probably a bit busy BUT I'm going to say that I would HOPE that he would not mind a reminder PM. If you all are too worried about droping him a PM and asking him to revisit this thread then let me know and I will so that you don't have to worry about it. But, really, he's a great guy from all that I can see, so you should be all set to NICELY remind him to take a look via PM... Nicely...

fatty · June 10, 2007, 02:57:23 AM

Thanks for the reply KGIII.

I'm don't like to bother the developers too much. I'm all too aware of how frustrating the constant requests can be. Maybe I'll have to summon up the courage to PM him...

edit: I've PMed Oldies. I hope I was nice enough! $:-\$

KGIII · June 10, 2007, 03:16:44 AM

LOL I'm 110% that if it was nice enough (and you referenced this thread in your PM) then he'll not be unhappy. I'm also certain that if he said he was working on it then he is or was. It may take some time though. Right now SMF is going through a LOT of changes. If you did NOT reference this thread then... Err... I guess PM him again and say sorry and what it was you were talking about. We all read COUNTLESS threads per day so we're lost when someone PMs us most of the time. Or at least I am.

fatty · June 10, 2007, 03:24:33 AM

Sure did reference this thread. So maybe he won't be too cross.

edit:

I got a reply...

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Unfortunately I haven't really had any time to work on it.

So now I have to decide if I wait or have a crack at it myself... $:-\$

billybrag · June 12, 2007, 04:26:39 AM

i tried it and it was horrible!! I dont know either Vanilla or SMF well enough. I think im gonna have to giv up and start my forum from scratch

fatty · June 17, 2007, 03:57:16 AM

Hmmm...I'm having trouble working out where to start. Can anyone point me in the direction of some documentation on converters? Any tips on a converter to use as a base for a Vanilla converter?

fatty · June 25, 2007, 06:14:45 PM

Looks like I'm going to have to give up and start from scratch!

fatty · July 14, 2007, 06:52:29 AM

<Sigh>

fatty · July 24, 2007, 06:20:19 AM

One last try...

redone · July 24, 2007, 11:19:20 AM

You have not been forgotten I will take a look. I have a workload too at this time so I will make promises on a timeline on this either.

fatty · July 30, 2007, 01:24:15 AM

Thanks redone!

redone · July 30, 2007, 01:00:38 PM

At this time we are working through the current batch of converters so you will have to bear with us on this. We do our best but often there is not enough time in the day!

In the meantime I will see if I can find a workaround for you. I see you provided a db dump earlier on in the post and that's great.

fatty · September 09, 2007, 09:19:18 PM

Any progress on the Vanilla converter Redone?

Fiery · October 10, 2007, 01:58:42 AM

Hello,

I am sorry this has taken so long. There are many projects and I am not sure what happened with this. I will post in the development team area and see what is going on.

Also, you may want to try a search: http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?action=search2;search=vanilla you may get lucky and find something that may be of use. Also have you tried google or anything?

I will let you know what they say.

fatty · October 14, 2007, 04:55:46 AM

Thanks pmp6nl! I've searched Google etc. I've looked for converters to other forum software that SMF already has a converter for but there's nothing out there. I've got a week off work coming up soon. I think I may have to spend the week doing a manual convert!

SleePy · October 14, 2007, 08:05:50 PM

Hello fatty (Dang I feel bad saying that),

Our usual converter creator is a bit busy with life. He has it in his todo list to create one day, but I can say I don't think it would be any time soon sadly.

Feel free to ask questions though about the SMF database. It is really simple and laid out very nicely and column names do what they actually say

So it shouldn't be to hard to convert most of it. I don't know how vanilla runs (I have yet to download and install a test of it) but most forums are using similar syntaxes today for how they do things.

dys · December 12, 2007, 01:27:50 AM

I'm also interested on converting back to SMF...help us

Sarge · December 12, 2007, 03:12:24 AM

Quote from: dys on December 12, 2007, 01:27:50 AM
I'm also interested on converting back to SMF...help us

Are you also running Vanilla?

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