[BETA] SMF 1.1 RC2 Converter - Including update for vB 3.5

[(un)cooldude]

Well, for some reason, the script isn't willing to accept my pathways to my phpBB install.

I know the pathways are correct. Is there something I'm missing?

Error Message: Unable to find the settings for phpBB2. Please double check the path and try again.

Pathways:

SMF: /usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/domainname.tld/subdomains/smf/httpdocs

phpBB2: /usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/domainname.tld/subdomains/phpbb/httpdocs

It just doesn't make any sense.


Update: The solution to my problem is here.

[astrolabos]

Hi, I try to convert my invision forum to smf and during the convert, I get this error:

Converting board permissions...
Notice: unserialize(): Error at offset 5 of 183 bytes in /home/theworld/public_html/smf/convert.php(653) : eval()'d code on line 89

Fatal error: Unsupported operand types in /home/theworld/public_html/smf/convert.php(653) : eval()'d code on line 89

Any Ideas?

[freehunter]

I am getting the error
Sorry, the database connection information used in the specified installation of SMF cannot access the installation of MyBulletinBoard 1.0. 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: '[address]' for table 'mybb_users'

I know why this is happening, it is because the SMF database can't contact the MyBB database, but Ihave no idea how to make it do so. They are installed in different databases, and GoDaddy doesn't have an option to connect the two that I have found. Anyone know how to fix this? I sent GoDaddy an email about it, but they won't reply for 5 hours.

[JayBachatero]

What you should do is create another user with the same name and password for the mybb database.

[freehunter]

I figured out the problem. GoDaddy sent me an email telling me that

Thank you for contacting Customer Support. Unfortunately, we no longer allow SMF usage on our hosting accounts. I apologize for the inconvenience.

They encourage you to install PHPBB and they encourage you to install Mambo, but they won't let you install the one forum that allows you to integrates with Mambo. Does anyone know of any other forum software that integrates as nicely with Mambo, and will let you convert right from MyBB to that software? Because I don't.

[Thantos]

Hmm thats interesting freehunter.  Thank you for bringing that to our attention.  I would greatly appreciate a confirmation from GoDaddy and an explanation for taking this course of action.  If anyone has access to them you can have them email info@simplemachines with their answer.

I would like to hold off on a reaction until we receive some type of response directly from them.

[Poor_Knight]

Wow. I am just staring at the screen blinking in amazment. I've been searching for this for a couple days now and have tried many different convertors. I expected to have to go through lots of configuring. I simply upload the the files and a couple seconds later I am reading my congratulations message.

Thanks! Complete success.

[astrolabos]

Which forum did you convert?

[JayBachatero]

He converted phpNuke with phpbb.

[astrolabos]

Any luck with invision?

[JayBachatero]

Did you try the .sql file in this topic?
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=58371.0

EDIT: Latest on in Page 8.

[astrolabos]

It did indeed. Thnx a lot

[JayBachatero]

Did that work for you?  Did your polls convert correctly?

[astrolabos]

The polls cannot be shown. I suppose that that's an issue in this convertor, right?

[JayBachatero]

Oldiesmann was working on getting the poll issues sorted out.  Reply to that topic and put any information or error messages that you are getting.

[astrolabos]

Well, after 15 days of working smf, I didn't notice any "bad spots" on the smf convertion from ipb. The only thing that went wrong, and it doesn't seem to fix, is the fact that there are rubbish in old ipb post when there were quotes or smileys. Is this something that I have to cope with or it can be fixed?
Thanx in advance

Let me give you an example. The language is greek, and you can ommit anything that you cannot understand. That will be Greek

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[!--QuoteBegin-Δήμος_από_Νέα_Σμύρνη+Sep 24 2005, 15:37--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE(Δήμος_από_Νέα_Σμύρνη @ Sep 24 2005, 15:37)[/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--QuoteEBegin--]πλακα πλακα μονο για μενα ισχυει αυτο...
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Κρίμα..κρίμα... [!--emo&:banana:--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/banana.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'banana.gif\' /][!--endemo--]  [!--emo&:locked:--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/locked.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'locked.gif\' /][!--endemo--]  [!--emo&:D--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/biggrin.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'biggrin.gif\' /][!--endemo--]  [!--emo&:P--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/tongue.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'tongue.gif\' /][!--endemo--]

[JayBachatero]

Which converter for IPB did you use?  I know Oldiesmann when through a great deal of trouble to get that working on the latest IPB converter.

[astrolabos]

Can I convert the forum again after 15 days?

[Leipe Po]

doesnt seem to be stripping slashes....

[JayBachatero]

Can I convert the forum again after 15 days?

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

doesnt seem to be stripping slashes....

Leipe is just the style that smileys are added in IPB.  It is very confusing.