DayDreamer wrote:
Hi there,

First of all, I would just like to say big thanks to michiel for his contribution to the converter, as well as to Rapid for his lateral thinking.
I have read the entire thread at least twice, so I'm pretty sure I did my steps right. However, like many people, while my posts were migrated correctly, my users are NOT.

Now I will be happy to devote my time into solving this issue, however I am in no way a coder. So if someone is nice enough to tell me how to debug the script on a sql client such as phpmyadmin, I will definitely publish my findings here for the greater good.

Cheers,
Ray

I experienced these problems as well with the users not coming through.

I compared an older version of the script with one of the more recent versions posted here and the newer one had some significant changes in the main select statement that gets the list of users. I merged the old select statement in and tweaked a couple of subsequent field values, delclared a few variables to get rid of the warnings and tweaked it to exclude users without passwords (spam bot regos form my old site) and seem to have achieved a successful import including the users.

Here's my script in case you find it useful. I've not spent a ton of time on this but it works from what I can tell.

wooo~~~
That would be good, except you haven't attached anything.
But thanks in advance.

Apologies - FB objected to my attachment (.php) and I thought I'd lost the post.

Here you go. My tweaks prefixed with "DRH".

Hey, that works. However, it seems that all my user passwords are stored wrong in the joomla database. Is it because of different decryption used to the two different system?
But it seems this is the only flaw left now. Cheers.

oh wait... it's my CB thing interfering
let me test again

Passwords work here...

cool!

Now, if only pause can be integrated into the script, it would be perfect.

Very nice Agent X20. Thanks for the good working fix. And thanks michiel for your support. You all did great work.

Just like to say "Damn" thats the bomb!

everything appears correct. It took a while; 7 hours but my 130mb phpbb2 database is now in joomla and fireboard and is happier than a pig in s**t.

so, I can confirm that your updated converter worked on a phpbb2 database with 21,078 users and 125689 articles.

Awesomeness

now I can continue on with my site migration.

thanks again to everyone that has offered support.