Proboards to SMF

[aw06]

OK, currenty i have a free proboards message board running ... im gonna be getting own domain and hosting space and will be using SMF  one problem with that, i have user accounts and messages on proboards that id like to migrate to SMF ......... is this possible 

Proboards looks like a very waterd down version of SMF .. see link for examples...

http://saybox.proboards28.com/ or http://ssdesigns.proboards15.com/

Please Help 

[Ben_S]

Not possible unfortunatly, pro boards is not based on SMF and even if it were, they wont give you access to your database.

[aw06]

  and there isnt a way this can be done manually .. like copy and pasting page source codes or something 

[kegobeer]

If, by manually you mean creating all of the users yourself and then creating new messages and copying and pasting those posts into SMF, then the answer is yes.  If you're looking for some sort of automated process, the answer is no.

[aw06]

Ooch, i guess i have some work to do then 

[Daniel15]

ProBoards is based on YaBB, which is what YaBB SE was based on, which is what SMF is based on.  That's why it looks a lot like SMF.

About transferring your forum, unless you can get a database backup, it's impossible. Even if you can get a database backup, it would still be quite hard to use this backup with SMF (you'd need to convert it).

[aw06]

So manually is the only option then  ..

I have 60+ users after a month of proboards, that i know i can re-create manually .. but there is 1500+ messages .. thats gonna take me some time to recreate  and right now i cant even install SMF casue it asking for some MySQL info which i dont know about 

cant some genius create a hack or mod to do this 

[vbgamer45]

I was hoping that in proboards all the threads would be in order and not dependent on the board. ie thread starts at 1 and goes the number of threads in the forum. But it doesn't.
Otherwise it could be possible to write a script to just view each thread in print mode and then get the thread information.

[aw06]

Sad Case