i have seen messages on phpbb forum about scripts timing out when processing large amounts of data. should be a way round this with a little knowledge or hard work searching for answers.

i think fireboard should make a category specifically for converters so that people dont need to search through so many messages to find outdated links.

andy

I'm still pretty new at this. But I had to remove the '' from the names like B's Car - In the database it sits as B''s Car... And it looks like the '' means something else in sql land. Hope that helps someone.

Problem with that is that I have hundreds of thousands of records to deal with. When you multiply the different tables it is millions of fields. Also I'm doing this on a test server so I'm going to have to do everything a second time on a live, production server once I get things to work properly. I will also have time constraints as I will need to stop a live and very active site. Extract the latest database which is around 50gb. Import that data then run the conversions. Best case scenario I'm thinking 5+ hours of the site being offline while I scramble to get these things done and re-launch the site with new data on new server.

So anything like dealing with special characters would have to be done in the script. Even then it will probably take hours to execute. I ran the phpbb to smf (successfully) on this same database and it took a couple of hours to complete.

has anyone successfully converted a phpbb 2.0.22 board over to the Fireboard 1.03??? if you had success please post as i would appreciate it before i try... I read through all the posts and there seems to be some issues... other talking about converting to smf first then over...

Just need to know if there is a successful way of converting from phpbb 2.0.22 to fireboard 1.03 as this time

Is it possible to convert phpbb to fireboard? I have a small forum on my current site, only 50 users and not all that many posts. Should I just start fresh on the new site, or can the conversion be done?

subfighter wrote:
has anyone successfully converted a phpbb 2.0.22 board over to the Fireboard 1.03??? if you had success please post as i would appreciate it before i try... I read through all the posts and there seems to be some issues... other talking about converting to smf first then over...

Just need to know if there is a successful way of converting from phpbb 2.0.22 to fireboard 1.03 as this time

no repsonse??

as i got 85,000 members and maybe close to a million post !!!

www.subfighter.com

I work on a project and sucessful converted about 450 users from phpbb to FB. Some scripts from this thread worked. So thx to for your work.

But i have another problem. Some people like to have their PM messages and i'm searching for an way to convert. I found one script here on page 22:


darragh wrote:
Hi,

I created a little python script to convert PM messages from phpbb to Jim.

Although probably not stricitly within the realm of fireboard, it is of use when converting from phpbb to fireboard + jim

See attached

Regards
Darragh

File Attachment:
File Name: phpbb2jim.gz
File Size: 867

But im sorry, i don't undersatnd how to use python scripts. On may web account python scripts can't be used and so i tried on xampp with python add on. But afte install the apache didn't work ( file python.conf couldn't be found in apache/extra/ folder).

So please can anyone help me ? Don't you as proud users of FB want to keep the PMs ?
I hope this isn't to far off topic, sorry for this the project is really urgent and i'm pleased for every bit of help.

Moguul

Moguul,

You could the python script on a local box with python against a remote database, but you'll need to ensure that the target database allows remote access.

It should also be easy enough to convert to php but I know nothing of php.

Regards
Darragh

Hi everyone. Um...I'm getting this error when trying to port over my phpbb 2.0.22. Any help would be much appreciated. I'm a complete novice when it comes to coding or anything, so it would help a bunch. Thank you.


Connecting to Database... OK
Populating Categories... OK
Populating Messages Table... OK
Populating Messages_Text Table... OK
Populating Users Table...
Invalid query:
SELECT group_id FROM jos_core_acl_aro_groups WHERE name='Registered' OR name='Administrator' ORDER BY name ASC
Unknown column 'group_id' in 'field list'

darragh wrote:
Moguul,

You could the python script on a local box with python against a remote database, but you'll need to ensure that the target database allows remote access.

It should also be easy enough to convert to php but I know nothing of php.

Regards
Darragh


Thx for your help. But now the file is down, could you please upload it again?