NateM wrote:
Hi,

I used the latest version of the script to upgrade MDForum, (phpbb integrated into MDPro), to fireboard. Everything went well, and I was able to convert 800 users and 10000+ posts without a hitch. The only problem is that when I'm in the fireboard administration area and I go into a forum user's profile, I have this at the top:

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I've got the same problem. Someone has got any idea?

Read a few posts after I asked that question. Someone gave a link to the solution.

Thank You, NateM. Now i'm going to read the related topic to fix.
I've got an other problem trasferring MDForum to Fireboard: Now all posts and trheads are ok, but there aren't old mdforum's users!
I'm going to read this topic again to understand if someone fixed that problem (or if i've made some error).

I could help Favazza:

Importing data from phpBB2

Connecting to Database... OK

Invalid query:

ALTER TABLE `jos_fb_messages` ADD `phpbb_userid` int(10) NOT NULL default '1'

Duplicate column name 'phpbb_userid'

if you're transferring from MDFORUM, the correct column is phpbb_users and not userid. So check it in phpbb2fb.php and change it!

In the while, i'm looking for solution about my problem with user.

No, the TABLE name is md_phpbb_users, the COLUMN name is phpbb_userid. If you've already tried to install it once, when you run it again, it will give you that error. That is because the user tables for fireboard aren't empty. You need to perform the conversion on a clean install of fireboard. Drop the fireboard tables in your phpmyadmin, reinstall fireboard, and then re-try the converter.

By the way, if you're using MDForum, this:

www.bestofjoomla.com/component/option,co...ew/id,16449/catid,6/

...is the set of guidelines you'll want to use to get it running.

oh.. I'm really sorry, It's been a long day of work.
Nate, is it normal that in the new forum (either if shows all posts and all threads in the right way), it's not shown the author of each post?

Anyway, thank you. now i start to translate to italian your instructions in the other thread. (or i can't do that?!)

It should show the author of each post. At least, it's showing on mine. Can you pm me a link to your demo, and I'll see what I can make of it.

Hi all,

I've spent the last 2 hours or so trawling through just this post alone, to try and find what I've done wrong.

I set eyes on this post at around 12.30pm today (Irish Time) and it's now 15.35pm.

My initial reaction was one of excitment as I seem to have found the perfect new forum solution for an aging website that is in dire need of a face lift. You see the bulk of my website currently centres around a phpbb (highly moded) forum. Essentially it's a hacked CMS close to their integramod.

I've been successfully using Joomla for some months now with all of my other content and I'm suitably impressed. The one remaining item is the forum.

Having tried the php converter script issued early on in this post, I ran this on my website, which has joomla (with fireboard installed as a component obviously) installed in the same db as my phpbb forum.

I'm not at a stage that I have do some db editing (shouldn't have done this in heinsight ) and I'm unsure of home to properly convert my forum any more

As many other users I am now getting the following error when trying the converter script. At this point I don't have any jos_fb_XXX tables in my db

Connecting to Database... OK
Invalid query:
ALTER TABLE `isles2_fb_messages` ADD `phpbb_userid` int(10) NOT NULL default '1'
Table 'modonovan.isles2_fb_messages' doesn't exist

I would really really like to move swiftly across to Fireboard within Joomla and could do with some subtle pushes in the right direction.

Thanks in advance,

~MickoD

I did a search and didn't find anything on this, but just in case: anybody know how to get the avatars to switch over also from phpbb to fireboard? everything else worked except all the avatars.

Think I might have found why I was getting this error.

It would appear that my genius (NOT) idea of removing the fb tables from my SQL database with phpmyadmin is at the crux of the problem. What I now need to do is recreate these tables, but I'm unsure of what structure they should have and what tables I actually need.

Would anyone who has gotten this working be able to do an SQL export of the relevant FB tables (such as jos_fb_messages and so on) obviously excluding any actual data from these tables - in other words just the blank tables - and post or pm them to me?

Thanks in advance,

MickoD

I've sorted this SQL db issue now. Simply dropping all jos_fb_WHATEVER tables from the DB and then doing a "Clean Install" of Fireboard has regenerated the correct tables.