Deluxe Portal 2.0 Importer?

[noppid]

Any chance we'll see one of these for this package?

Regards

[Grudge]

I would have no idea what that is. If it's a bridge into a portal then you should probably post about it on the portals board, if it's a converter then use the converters board. This board is only for actual *features* of the software, not for getting the software to work with other vendors software. If I've confused the request please excuse me!

[noppid]

Hi Grudge,

The name is confusing. It's a forum software that recently went belly up. I've been looking for a way out of it with no luck so far. I tried here because I found someone running a support board for DP users that were left in the cold, but that place is not active. So I followed the link here since they use this software.

I'd hate to start from scratch, but darn it that's how it's looking at this point.

[Ben_S]

Speak to Douglas, he converted his DP site to YaBB SE, if you can get hold of the convertor he used you should be able to goto YSE and onto SMF.

[noppid]

Thanks a Bunch Ben. I'll look into that and PM him I guess.

Appreciate the quick responses.

[Douglas]

I just looked and cannot find the converter that was used to convert from DP to YaBB SE.  We may have to get [Unknown] involved to see if he can locate the converter he did for me.  I thought I had it, however, once I got off of DP (Best decision I ever made, to be honest), I removed the converter.  IF I can find it, I'll attach it to this post.

[noppid]

Appreciate you taking the time to look.

I've tried vB3's converter which fails.

I tried the SMF converter from vB3 to SMF but it fails as well. I can use the SMF to vB3 converter, but I'd lose 6 months on the forums. Not a big deal. If this is being developed I'd be glad to try and help get it working.

Thanks.

[Kirby]

Is it possible to get a DB dump?

[noppid]

Is it possible to get a DB dump?

Sure, but I got through the vb3 to SMF conversion. The fatal errors were with the  Deluxe portal to vB3 converter from vbulletin.  So I didn't get to use my current DP DB, I have to use the old backup from 6 months ago which is a native vb3 DB.

If ya need it though let me know. I'm almost done setting up a new forum and deciding if I should just move to SMF today.

[Kirby]

Can I have it anyway? I'll give a shot at making a converter for other people who need it

[noppid]

I'm not clear which DB you're interested in. I thought you were an SMF developer.

I really don't want to give my DB out for obvious reasons.

[Kirby]

The Deluxe Portal DB... Thats fine if you don't want to.

[noppid]

Well let me know which DB ya wanted and I can change all the emails and passwords to generics. There are no secret posts.

[noppid]

We're cross posting. 

I'll make a copy of the DP DB for ya.

[Kirby]

I wanted the DeluxePortal DB if thats possible...
By the way - I don't need all of the user data - if you can just get me one user from it and tell me if the passwords are encrypted or not (you can change them, I just need to know if they're encrypted)a

EDIT: thanks!

[noppid]

Let me know how if ya got an ETA on this. If it's gonna be in the near future I'd like to wait and open my forums when I can do a full import instead of losing 6 months.

Thanks and regards

[Kirby]

Well I already got a LOT of things working - members, categories, topics, messages... Still left:
instant messages
polls
correct board/subboard placement

[noppid]

wow, you don't waste time!

If I can help in any way please holler. I appreciate it!

[Kirby]

Nothing much to help with - its going along quite nicely.... if I don't get it by tonight I will try my best to get it out tommarow since I have to leave in about an hour.

[noppid]

Tomorrow would be fine then. Thanks again. Look forward to it.