SMF 2 + SMF 2 - how?

[marazmus]

Hello. How can I "merge" two SMF2 forums into one? Any converter maybe? Thank you.

[ThorstenE]

sorry, but currently there is no merging script available for SMF 2 (which is still under developement). This is something on my to-do list for the next weeks but for now, I'm sorry..

[marazmus]

Okay, thank you in any case

[nivlac]

TE,

I'm checking to see if you have made any progress on your merging script for SMF 2.

Thanks...

[aED]

I have a merging script for SMF  which I used for a client of mine. It is already working but it has no interface yet so I still need to work on that before I share it here

[nivlac]

Okay, thanks. I ended up doing a manual merge in phpMyAdmin and only lost a few posts out all, so I didn't do as bad as I feared I would. But, I look forward to your merge mod as it would make it so much easier.

[aED]

I wonder how  you managed to merge it using PMA as I know the ids would conflict to the other database

[Mr. Doug]

Here's how I did it today.

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=363021.msg2570694#msg2570694

[nivlac]

Actually, I didn't give you the whole story with my forum. I had already upgraded from 1.1.11 to 2.0 RC2 but then couldn't go live as the old version was using a registration password mod which effectively screened non-alumni from joining because we only gave the password out to alumni that wanted to join and changed it weekly. That particular mod had basically become abandoned and I found someone that was willing to code a new one.

In the mean time, the old forum kept growing and the upgraded one had some stuff added by the owner/admin, even though I asked her not to add anything. My delima was I had two 2.0 RC2 versions that were identical up to a certain date and then the database diverged.

I think I used INSERT IGNORE. I'm not too good at remembering sql commands but it was one added the rows that were different and ignored the ones that were the same. So I only lost the ones that had identical ID, which turned out to be less than ten in the whole database. Of course I did this in a duplicate forum and once I was sure I didn't loose too much I moved the old forum and copied the duplicate to the old folder and used repair_settings.php to update the paths.

[bhathiya9999]

Still it is under construction means we can take it in few days then SMF -2 can connect

[Liam.]

Even if it takes months, I'm looking forward to this/these merging mods