I run a site (www.backcountryclub.org) that is hosted on a very restrictive server, that only allows perl-scripting! For this reason, eBlah has really come through for me by creating a very strong and featured perl forum script that uses flat-file storage. However, I'm upgrading the site and moving hosts, so that I'll have access to PHP and MySQL, and my first change is to move to Joomla and this forum script.

eBlah just recently released an SQL-driven forum script, and I'm going to easily convert from flatfile to that script, but I'm not sure how to then move from that forum to this forum. I am considering a multi-conversion process, but I'd really like to keep my users and messages intact. Has anyone made a conversion?

If not, is there a database structure listing for the Fireboard so that I can manually convert the database? I'm presuming this will need to include some serious permissions, etc.

I'm not handy at either perl or PHP script, and I only know the basic GUI manipulation tools for SQL databases. I appreciate all the help I can get.

Hey champ!
Best bet (imo) is to go eBlah to SMF, and then wait for a few days (hopefully!!) for the official SMF to FB converter to be released.

You can grab the eBlah (and many other forum systems) to SMF on the official SMF website
(www.simplemachines.org/download/?converters)

And you should be able to grab the SMF to FB converter off this site very soon.
Check out the thread in this board for more info.
There are also some 'hack' SMF to FB converters out, although they didn't work well at all for me, a few have had success.

Best of luck!

Thanks! I'm working on finding an eBlah 10.2.5 to SMF converter right now, and I figured that SMF was the quickest converter to go to Fireboard. I'll hope for the best.

d3v1an7 wrote:
Hey champ!
Best bet (imo) is to go eBlah to SMF, and then wait for a few days (hopefully!!) for the official SMF to FB converter to be released.

You can grab the eBlah (and many other forum systems) to SMF on the official SMF website
(www.simplemachines.org/download/?converters)

And you should be able to grab the SMF to FB converter off this site very soon.
Check out the thread in this board for more info.
There are also some 'hack' SMF to FB converters out, although they didn't work well at all for me, a few have had success.

Best of luck!Yup! That would probably be the best route to take. There would be a greater chance of finding a converter to go to SMF than anything and hopefully in the next few days, the official Best of Joomla SMF>>FB converter will be released.